On June 3, 2021, Jonathan A. Weston — a 60-year-old certified accountant and fourteen-year financial custodian for Hillandale Farms Co. in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, one of the largest egg producers in the United States — was arrested and indicted on six federal counts including fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and filing false federal income tax returns after IRS Criminal Investigation Pittsburgh, led by Special Agent in Charge Yury Kruty, uncovered a scheme running from October 2005 through January 2019 in which Weston and an internal bookkeeper embezzled approximately $6.8 million from the company. Weston laundered the stolen funds through a holding company called Cougar Holdings, a network of car-wash operations, and a candy retailer chain called Katie's Kandy stores, using the high-cash-volume retail business to disguise embezzled proceeds as legitimate income. Between 2013 and 2018 he also filed false personal income tax returns, underreporting more than $500,000 in stolen funds in a single filing, and used Hillandale money to pay his children's college tuition. Weston pleaded guilty on August 23, 2022, and on May 7, 2025, U.S. District Judge W. Scott Hardy sentenced him to 27 months in federal prison and ordered restitution totaling more than $8 million — including $6,870,128 to Hillandale Farms and $1,216,176 to the IRS — along with forfeiture of a 2008 Aston Martin Vantage convertible, a 1933 Ford Model 40 coupe, and a Gateway Towers condominium in downtown Pittsburgh. Hillandale Farms, which was sold to a Luxembourg-based buyer in 2025 for $1.1 billion, absorbed a nearly fourteen-year internal cash hemorrhage that its own financial controls never flagged, because the man running those controls was the one writing the checks to himself.