ANCHORAGE, Alaska–A former employee of Credit Union 1 here has been sentenced for embezzling more than $100,000.
U.S Attorney Karen Loeffler of the Justice Department, announced that Shanice Mano, 23, was sentenced to one year in jail. Her charge carried a term of up to 30 years.
As CUToday.info reported earlier, Mano was a teller at Credit Union 1 when she accessed member accounts without permission and transferred the money to accounts she had control over and from which she was able to make withdrawals. She transferred the money from the accounts to her personal account and then made out a cashier's check totaling $101,192, which she cashed and collected on July 11, according to the original complaint.
The U.S. Attorney said that on the same day as the transfer Mano called in sick to work, and then two days later allegedly told the credit union she couldn't work due to a death in the family. The complaint further alleged that at the same time she did not return to work at Credit Union 1 her husband paid off an $11,000 car loan, in cash.
At sentencing, Chief Justice Timothy Burgess noted that “Mano’s crime was well planned and deliberate and that over the course of several days she stole money that had taken the victim’s years to save,” the Alaska Native News reported.
Mano was also ordered to pay restitution for the portion of the funds that was not recovered by the FBI.