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Poor Oversight Blamed for $320K Embezzlement

Two employees at a $4.2M Illinois community credit union are sentenced for their crimes.

By Missy Baxter | Updated on July 16, 2014

Due to a lack of oversight at a small Illinois credit union, two employees were able to embezzle more than $320,000 in separate incidents that spanned many years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Kimberly Kent, 53, a former manager at the $4.2 million Milledgeville Community Credit Union who also served as an elected official for a small Illinois town, was sentenced July 14 to eight months in federal prison for embezzling more than $220,000 from the credit union from 2005 to 2012, the court documents said.

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