Two others, Tino Ninotti, a retired Wilkes-Barre city police officer, and Leo Glodzik, a Wilkes-Barre city contractor, also pleaded not guilty in August to charges of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Glodzik was also charged and pleaded not guilty to witness tampering.

Their trials are pending.

In at least one instance, according to an indictment, Magda and Anthony paid cash to an unnamed individual for use of that individual's name and credit. They also forged signatures on fraudulent loan documents.

While the indictment charged that Magda and Anthony either refinanced or added debt to fake loans they secured, only one loan totaling more than $7,000 was mentioned in court documents.

Court documents also showed Ninotti, a former Wilkes-Barre city cop, also used the name of another credit union member to fraudulently obtain a $25,086 car loan.

Glodzik, a city contractor, allegedly supplied Ninotti with a fake vehicle identification number to obtain the loan, according to an indictment. Glodzik also was charged with witness tampering. He allegedly attempted to persuade Ninotti to fabricate an explanation about the bank fraud.

The total amount of fake loans allegedly obtained was more than $42,000.

Charges against the five defendants came just five months after Manager Jim Payne fatally shot himself at his Bear Creek, Pa., home in March. At that time, public reports surfaced he was potentially being targeted in an FBI investigation.

Soon after Payne committed suicide in March, Carrie Adamowski, an FBI spokesperson in Philadelphia, confirmed to CU Times that Sean Quinn, director of the FBI's Scranton office, said to the local media that he "considered the credit union as a witness and a victim in an ongoing criminal investigation. Individual employees of the credit union were potential targets of the investigation."