The NCUA banned two tellers, one who helped plan two robberies of a Texas credit union and another who stole money from accounts of elderly members at a credit union in Virginia.
Desire Valverde, 23, a former teller of the $254 million Education Credit Union in Amarillo, Texas, was sentenced in July to more than eight years in federal prison, after she pleaded guilty to credit union robbery and aiding and abetting a credit union robbery.
During an investigation of two Education branch robberies in May and September 2016, FBI agents learned Valverde provided one of the robbers with information on how and when to commit each robbery.
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