A former assistant branch manager for a Maryland credit unionwill be sentenced in April after admitting she worked with fourother suspects in a bank fraud conspiracy that stole $327,000 froma member's account.

And in another theft case, a former employee, who could havefaced up to 30 years in prison, was sentenced Monday to onlyto one day in prison and five years of supervised release forstealing more than $80,000 from a credit union in WestVirginia.

Valerie Hughes, who worked at the $263 million Nymeo Federal Credit Union based in Frederick,Md., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in U.S.District Court in Greenbelt, Md.

She admitted accessing personal information of member accountsthat were dormant. That information included the name,address, Social Security number, date of birth, current balance,account number and phone number associated with the member victim,according to court documents.

With that information, one of the suspects walked into the NymeoFCU's Gaithersburg branch in February 2017. The male suspectpresented Hughes with a completed wire transfer form that requestedthe transfer of $327,000 from a dormant member's account to a WellsFargo business account. The suspect gave Hughes a fakeMaryland driver's license in the name of the member with thesuspect's photo.

The wire transfer was initiated and authorized by Hughes. Oncethat transaction was completed, the suspect made a $6,000 cashwithdrawal from the member's account.

In March, the same male suspect walked into the branch andrequested Hughes authorize a $80,000 wire transfer from the samemember's account to the Wells Fargo business account. The suspectalso withdrew $6,000 from the member's account, which Hughesprocessed, according to court documents.

However, this time the wire transfer was not authorized becauseanother Nymeo FCU employee recognized that the suspect was not themember who owned that account.

Hughes told police investigators that she was approached toparticipate in the fraud scheme by the four suspects, claiming theydid similar fraud jobs but were never caught. The suspects werecharged with various fraud felonies.

Michelle K. Martin, of Wellsburg, West Va.pleaded guilty to one count of theft last December. Martin admittedshe embezzled approximately $82,000 from the $45 million StripSteel Community Federal Credit Union in Weirton from October 2016to May 2017. Her position at the credit union was not identified incourt documents.

U.S. District Judge Frederick P. Stamp Jr. in Wheeling orderedthe former employee to pay restitution of $82,000 to “Victim No. 1”who was not identified in court documents, though presumably VictimNo. 1 is or was a credit union member.

The federal judge's “statement of reasons” document forsentencing Martin to only one day in prison was sealed and notpublicly available. Another document that was not publiclyavailable online was Martin's plea agreement with federalprosecutors.