The federal judge also sentenced Allah to 57 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay $88,800 in restitution, a $2,500 fine and a $200 special assessment fee, according to court documents.

Cannon and Allah each pleaded guilty earlier to one felony count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one felony count of aggravated identity theft.

Allah was the leader of a five–person fraud ring that victimized Broadview in 2022.

He pressured Cannon, his live-in girlfriend at that time, to obtain credit union account information of members with substantial funds on deposit so that he and other co-conspirators could create fake checks on those member's accounts, which were cashed at other Broadview branches by five other "lower-level runners" of the conspiracy who were not charged, prosecutors said.

Allah also pressured Cannon to assist him and three other co-conspirators, Evan Cutler, Dnauticah Taylor-Sterman and Davon Parson, to carry out a loan fraud scheme at Broadview. They used other members' identities to secure loans and then withdrew the funds. Much of that cash went to Allah, according to prosecutors.

"It was the defendant (Allah) who concocted this conspiracy and without his supervision of this conspiracy and the pressure he put on coconspirator Caeshara Cannon, it is likely that these crimes never would have occurred," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo to Judge Nardacci.

Although Cannon was a trusted gatekeeper at Broadview and bore the most power of all of the members of the conspiracy to prevent the fraud, prosecutors argued for a lighter sentence for Cannon because her conduct over the last two years mitigated the punishment necessary to achieve the goals of sentencing.

"Against this, the defendant, (Cannon), has consistently and fully accepted responsibility for her conduct," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo to Judge Nardacci. "The defendant has been forthcoming with law enforcement about her role in the offenses since the day of her initial arrest by local authorities in connection with this conspiracy over two years ago. The defendant has also abided by the terms of her pretrial release for over a year and has held a job in billing and surgical coordination for a local health services provider. All of this suggests that the defendant has turned the page on this chapter in her life and is not only capable of success but is well on her way to achieving it."

The three other co-conspirators, Evan Cutler, Dnauticah Taylor-Sterman and Davon Parson, each pleaded guilty earlier to one felony count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one felony count of aggravated identity theft.

Parson was sentenced in September to 15 months in federal prison. He also was ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution, a $2,500 fine and a $200 special assessment.

Cutler's sentencing hearing is tentatively scheduled for December. According to his plea deal, he will pay $113,800 in restitution.

Taylor-Sterman is scheduled to be sentenced in November. According to his plea deal, he will pay $25,000 in restitution.