In September 2024, she pleaded guilty to theft of more than $25,000, according to court filings from the St. Charles Parish Court in Hahnville.

Risinger was sentenced to two years in state prison, which was suspended. She was also sentenced to two years of probation, fined $1,000, and ordered to pay $30 per month while on probation.

Court filings did not indicate any restitution ordered by the court. Risinger’s attorney did not respond to a CU Times request for comment on Monday.

In February, a Montana federal judge sentenced former credit union employee Edward Arthur Nurse to six months in federal prison and six months of home confinement for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a gambling addiction that lasted nearly a year.

Nurse, who worked at the $377 million Park Side Credit Union (PSCU) based in Whitefish, was ordered to pay $389,000 in restitution and serve five years of supervised release following his sentence.

At the PSCU branch, Nurse’s primary role was managing and balancing money in the vault.

Prosecutors said he concealed his actions from security cameras, auditors and colleagues by placing bundles of real money in front of and behind bundles of fake cash.

Financial records from the Grey Wolf Peak Casino in Missoula showed that, from March 2024 to May 2024, Nurse funneled more than $56,000 into the gambling establishment and cashed out slightly more than $8,000.

Maryland federal prosecutors described Jalen Craig McMillan as a corrupt former bank employee who facilitated a sophisticated fraud scheme to steal more than $420,000 from the $180 billion Navy Federal Credit Union.

Last year, a jury found him guilty of one count of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy and 11 counts of aggravated identity theft.

A federal judge sentenced McMillan in June to 54 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $165,891 in restitution.

McMillan used his position as a Navy Federal member service representative at the credit union's Laurel, Md., branch to open accounts using stolen identities — sometimes of Navy Federal members — to make fraudulent financial transactions.

As part of the fraud scheme, the NCUA also banned Jovan Bell, another Navy Federal member service representative, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Bell was sentenced in August to one day in prison and three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $132,988 in restitution.

Former Hanscom Federal Credit Union Assistant Branch Manager Nadaje Hendrix was sentenced to eight months in federal prison in November for stealing more than $130,000 through fraudulent loans in the names of Massachusetts state prisoners — information she obtained from an incarcerated individual.

In January 2024, the former employee of the $1.8 billion Hanscom FCU at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., was indicted by a federal grand jury alongside alleged co-conspirator Glenroy Miller, a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Cedar Junction in South Walpole.

In December 2019, Hendrix opened a bank account and took out a loan for Miller. The application she prepared falsely listed Miller's address and employment as being in Boston, while he was actually serving time in state prison.

Miller provided Hendrix with the personally identifiable information (PII) of fellow inmates, which she used to create fraudulent loan applications. He then arranged for other co-conspirators to go to the credit union branch to sign documents and obtain the funds.

Miller acquired inmates’ PII by claiming he could help repair their credit histories. Hendrix kept about 10% of each fraudulent loan she processed and approved, according to court documents.

In addition to her prison sentence, Hendrix was ordered to pay $134,000 in restitution.

Former President/CEO Stephen Hopkins of the $10.3 million HealthPlus Federal Credit Union in Jackson, Miss., stole funds from members’ accounts for personal use between November 2020 and February 2021.

The theft resulted in more than $14,000 in losses to the credit union and/or its members, according to the NCUA.

Mississippi court documents showed Hopkins was sentenced in April 2023 to a pretrial intervention program instead of prison.

The court order did not specify whether Hopkins had paid restitution or was ordered to do so. The NCUA also did not indicate whether restitution was made.

The pretrial intervention program allows first-time, nonviolent offenders to avoid a criminal record if they successfully complete certain conditions, according to the Hinds County District Attorney’s Office.

Peter Strozniak can be reached at [email protected]