Jolina Monique Sanchez stole more than $292,000 from two small businesses who hired her while she was under indictment for embezzling $300,000 from the merged Azusa City Employees Federal Credit Union in Azusa, Calif.
The criminal conduct of Sanchez even shocked U.S. District Court Judge George H. King in Los Angeles, who sentenced the former credit union manager Monday to three and a half years in federal prison and ordered her to pay more than $600,000 in restitution. She pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement and one count of bank fraud.
"I can tell you that the judge did say in open court that he found [her] conduct to be shocking to the court and he referenced her chain of unlawful activity," according to a source who was present as the sentencing hearing but spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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