Sandra H. Cooper, the former president/treasurer of the Orange County (Texas) Employees FCU has been banned by the NCUA from participating in the activities of a federally insured financial institution because she pleaded guilty to embezzlement.

Cooper  was  sentenced to 63 months in prison and three years of supervised probation, after admitting to embezzling $1.1 million from the credit union over 4 ½ years. She was also ordered to repay the money.

She was indicted last December and sentenced in June.

The NCUA closed the credit union, which had assets of $1.7 million, in June 2010 and its assets were purchased and assumed by Sabine FCU of Orange, Texas.

Violation of a prohibition order is a felony and can be punished by imprisonment and a fine of up to $1 million.

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