A married couple now living in Las Vegas faces years in prison and potentially millions of dollars in fines for a scheme that wound up bringing down a small federal credit union in California.
According to documents from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Mireya Guadalupe Gonzalez and her husband, Jorge Gonzalez, were indicted for having embezzled more than $1.2 million from the Sharebuilders Federal Credit Union, then headquartered in Northridge, Calif. The credit union served the employees of a 3M manufacturing plant there.
According to the indictment, Mireya was employed as a manager at the CU and sometime before January 2005 began moving money from dormant CU accounts to accounts in her name, her husband's name and those of her children. The Gonzalezes controlled all the accounts and used the money they moved to fund purchases of jewelry, luxury items and other goods, according to Andre Birotte, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
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