Two former employees of the $4.2 million Milledgeville CommunityCredit Union in Milledgeville, Ill., who embezzled more than$320,000 will be sentenced in May and June in two separate federalcases, said Zachary T. Fardon, U.S. Attorney for the NorthernDistrict of Illinois in Chicago.

In the first case, Kimberly Kent, 53, a former manager of thecooperative, pleaded guilty Feb. 24 in U.S. District Court inRockford to embezzling more than $219,000 and used local taxpayerdollars to cover up her fraud.

According to court documents, Kent was elected treasurer ofWysox Township in 2009. She removed $175,000 from a Wysox Townshipaccount to cover up the money she had embezzled from MilledgevilleCommunity CU.

The taxpayer monies taken from Wysox Township came from variousfunds that supported the local government's operations.

Between 2010 and February 2012, Kent concealed her embezzlementby, among other things, moving money in and out of Wysox Township'saccount at Milledgeville Community CU, court documents show.

Kent embezzled credit union funds from October 2005 to February2012.

Before using taxpayer funds to conceal her scheme, Kent coveredup her fraud by creating fictitious loans using names of familymembers and fictitious certificates of deposits, according to courtpapers.

In the second case, Kelsey Selman, 37, pleaded guilty Feb. 24 toembezzling more than $100,000 from the 869-member MilledgevilleCommunity CU, where she worked as a teller.

From early 2007 to early 2012, Selman covered up her fraud byusing the credit union's computer system to apply credits to herpersonal account, according to court documents. The credits,however, did not have corresponding deposits. As a result, thecredit union's records falsely reflected that Selman's cash drawerincreased by an amount to offset the deposits into her account.

Both women used the money they stole to pay for personalexpenses.

Kent and Selman, however, repaid the credit union all of thefunds they embezzled, federal prosecutors said.

The former credit union employees each face a maximum of 30years of imprisonment and up to five years of supervised releasefollowing imprisonment. They each may be fined $1 million.

Sentencing for Kent is scheduled for June 2 and sentencing forSelman is set for May 7.

The Milledgeville Community CU case is at least the thirdembezzlement/fraud incident that has involved Illinois creditunions so far this year.

On Feb. 14, Anne Schaal, the former president/CEO of the $1.9million, 492-member Aurora Firefighters Credit Union, pleaded guilty to embezzlingmore than $36,000 from the Aurora, Ill.-based institution.

In January, four Illinois men were charged with bank fraudcharges in a luxury car loan scheme that defrauded four credit unions out of $914,000, according federalprosecutors in Chicago.

The men, who are not credit union employees, stand accused offraudulently securing at least 28 automobile loans from the $643million Great Lakes Credit Union in North Chicago, the $30 millionSherwin-Williams Employees Credit Union in South Holland, Ill., the$745 million Credit Union 1 in Rantoul, Ill., and the $16 billionPentagonFederal Credit Union in Alexandria, Va.