The NCUA said Friday it banned a former branch manager and aloan officer.

Mireya Guadalupe Gonzalez, who worked as abranch manager for the Sharebuilders Federal Credit Union inNorthridge, Calif., was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2012 to 18 months infederal prison for embezzlement and filing a false income taxreturn.

She also was ordered to pay $868,122 in restitution.

Mireya moved money from dormant accounts to accounts in hername, her husband's name and those of her children. She used thestolen funds to buy jewelry and other luxury items.

Her theft led to the credit union's liquidation in April 2007,though Gonzalez was not indicted until October 2010, according tocourt records.

John Scalzo, a former loan officer for the $1 billion ConsumerCredit Union Gurnee, Ill., was sentenced on July 19, 2013 to twoyears and nine months in federal prison for bank fraud and moneylaundering. Before he worked at CCU, he also was a loan officer forthe Fox River State Bank in Burlington, Wis.

In 2008 and 2009, Scalzo originated and approved nine loansworth $1.4 million, most in the form of lines of credit, in thename of unqualified or unknowing borrowers by forging theirsignatures on loan documents. He also used funds from some of theseloans to pay balances due for previous fraudulent loans he tookout.

At Fox River State Bank, he originated $843,000 in fraudulentloans and at CCU he originated $615,000 in fake loans, according tocourt documents.

Scalzo was also ordered to pay $679,737 inrestitution.