The NCUA Monday banned a former CEO with a criminal past for theft, a former employee who served only one hour in custody for a $400,000 embezzlement, and a former staffer convicted of aggravated theft who withdrew more than $150,000 from member accounts.
These individuals and four others are prohibited from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.
Cynthia D. Gilmore, former president/CEO of the conserved $3.6 million Beverly Bus Garage Federal Credit Union in Chicago, was convicted of theft charges, issuing worthless checks and forgery in Wisconsin back in 2002. She was sentenced to 30 months in state prison and more than 12 years of supervised released, according to court documents. She had been serving as CEO of the credit union since at least 2012, NCUA profile documents show. The federal agency conserved Beverly Bus Garage FCU in March. At the end of this year's first quarter, the credit union posted a net income loss of $721,677, according to NCUA financial performance reports. In addition to her CEO position, Gilmore was the board's secretary and a member of the credit committee.
Tania Maldanado-Suarez, who embezzled $474,894 from the $137 million Puerto Rico Federal Credit Union in Caparra, served only one-hour in custody in the San Juan courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Jay A Garcia-Gregory and under the watchful eyes of U.S. Marshals, according to court documents. After completing her one-hour sentence in March 2017, the former staffer is now serving three years of supervised release. Maldanado-Suarez also was ordered to pay restitution of $474,894 to the credit union. Several court documents regarding this case were concealed from public online access.
Willie Joseph Jones, Jr., a former employee of the $677 million Power Financial Credit Union in Pembroke Pines, Fla., pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft in August 2016 in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale. After being pulled over for a traffic violation, cops found a ledger in Jones's car that listed the names, account numbers, and other personable identifying information of at least 15 credit union members of the $722 million Tropical Financial Credit Union in Miramar, Fla. Power Financial fired Jones in November 2015 because he was accessing member account information without any business purpose, and he fraudulently withdrew more than $150,000 from member accounts. Jones was sentenced to two years in prison, one year of supervised release and was ordered to pay $155,877 in restitution.
Edward John Malone and Laura L. Malone, former employees of the $2.5 million Mt. Pleasant Area School Employees Federal Credit Union, in Mount Pleasant, Pa., pleaded guilty to theft and receiving stolen property in March 2016, according to the NCUA. They were ordered to one year of probation and pay $3,232 in restitution by a Pennsylvania state court judge.
Tammy Burns, a former employee of the $42 million Access Credit Union in Bristol, Pa., pleaded guilty to theft and receiving stolen property in December 2017. Burns was sentenced to three years' probation by a Pennsylvania court judge, the NCUA reported.
Natasha Mask, a former temporary employee of the $11 billion Golden 1 Federal Credit Union in Sacramento, Calif., was found guilty of petty theft in June 2004. Mask was sentenced to ten days in prison and was ordered to complete one week in the Sacramento County Sheriff's work program.
Prohibition and administrative orders are searchable by name, institution, city, state, and year at the NCUA's Administrative Orders webpage, which also provides links to the enforcement actions of federal banking agencies against other institutions or their affiliated parties.
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