The NCUA issued six prohibition orders Jan. 29 banning six former credit union employees from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.
Angela Michelle Martin, a former vice president of the $4.9 million Mountain Community Federal Credit Union in Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., pleaded guilty in May 2014 to embezzlement. In August 2014, she was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $489,583.
According to court documents, she stole credit union funds from 2011 to 2013 and made loan payments to herself, her husband and other members. She also falsified records and kept fraudulent transactions under $3,000 in an effort to not draw attention to her theft. Additionally, Martin obtained computer passwords belonging to credit union employees under her supervision and used them to conduct illegal transactions, according to court records.
Sherrie Ann Rivera, a former COO for the $75 million Peoples Credit Union in Pembroke Pine, Fla., was sentenced in October 2015 to six months in prison and was ordered to pay $261,517 in restitution.
She pleaded guilty in July and admitted to stealing from credit union accounts from 2009 to 2014, including fraudulent tax refunds that were supposed to be returned to the U.S. Treasury.
Rivera consented to the issuance of a prohibition order to avoid the time and expense of administrative litigation, according to the NCUA.
Male Yahaira Rivera, a former assistant branch manager, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in June 2015 for embezzling $258,000 from the $1.9 billion Fairwinds Credit Union in Orlando.
She admitted to stealing the cash on 16 separate occasions in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $40,000 from two credit union ATMs, and used more than $44,000 as a partial payment for a Porsche.
Tara Marie Chambers was a teller for the $4.8 million Sears Spokane Employees Federal Credit Union in Spokane, Wash. for 13 years when, in 2003, she began running a money order fraud scheme. She was fired in 2006.
However, she wasn't charged with embezzlement until December 2014. Because of her fraud, the credit union posted net losses of more than $17,000. She was sentenced to time served in July 2015 and placed on five years of supervised release.
Felicia Marie Gomez, a former employee of the $431 million Bellwether Community Credit Union in Manchester, N.H., and Nora Nelly Gonzalez, a former employee of the $55.3 million Southwest Financial Federal Credit Union in Dallas, both consented to the issuance of a prohibition order to avoid the time and expense of administrative litigation, according to the NCUA.
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