Follow-up: New doc 'Fruitcake Fraud' tells story of millions swindled at Collin Street Bakery

[TexasTowelie]

New documentary ‘Fruitcake Fraud’ tells story of millions swindled at Collin Street Bakery


CORSICANA -- Remember when an employee at Collin Street Bakery — the Texas shop known for its fruitcakes — got caught having stolen nearly $17 million from the business in 2013? The movie version isn’t here yet. (Pre-COVID, Will Ferrell was on board. Now, the film’s status is in question.) But while you’re waiting, Discovery+ has rolled out a new documentary special about what happened in Corsicana called Fruitcake Fraud. It landed on the streaming service earlier this month, just in time for the mail-order cake’s big season.

“It’s definitely the strangest case I’ve ever worked,” FBI agent Christine Edson says in the show, which comes out Wednesday. Over the course of 90 minutes, she and others look back on the nearly decade-long embezzlement scheme undertaken by Sandy Jenkins, the bakery’s bookkeeper, to fuel an opulent lifestyle complete with pricey cars, high-end watches and jewelry, a Santa Fe home and luxury travel for him and his wife, Kay.

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/tv/2021/12/08/new-documentary-tells-story-of-millions-in-fraud-at-corsicana-bakery/

Related threads:

FBI Searches Home Of Former Collin Street Bakery Official in Corsicana; $17 million allegedly stolen
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107810697
Former Executive for Fruitcake Bakery Indicted
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107812011
Follow-up story: A tale of trust betrayed at landmark Corsicana Bakery ($17M Embezzlement Case)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107816085
Follow-up: Ex-Collin Street Bakery controller pleads guilty to embezzling $16M from historic bakery
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107818183
Follow-up: Wife of ex-Collin Street Bakery exec pleads guilty to her role in swindling $16 million
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107825902

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. My mom's cousin sent her one of those for Christmas every year.

Mmmmmmmmm. They are delicious. I loved those Collins Bakery fruitcakes. I stored lots of buttons and thread in the empty cans.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I can't believe that I've been posting about this story for more than eight years.

It also sounds like your mom and her cousin had a nice holiday tradition--it's always a question mark when taking the first bite of the holiday fruitcake, particularly when unaware of the origin.

[marble falls]

3. Still have tins my grandmother saved buttons and sewing machine parts and tools in.