Astounding' fraud: Ex Delta worker gets 10-year sentence

Yedor had been an employee of Northwest since 1979 and then Delta after the airlines merged in 2009. From at least 1999 through 2013, according to investigators, Yedor submitted invoices from a company, Airborne Voice and Data, that sought payment for goods and services that the company hadn't provided.

. Britt Johnson, FBI special agent in charge of the Atlanta office, said Yedor's sentencing represents "the end of not only a complex scheme to defraud Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines but also the resulting extensive federal investigation into those involved."

Yedor's accomplice, Paul Anderson, 57, of Apple Valley, Minn., a manager who had the authority to approve the payments, pleaded guilty to mail fraud on Sept. 15 and is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 23.