Prison sentence handed down for former CU head teller.

A Cleveland federal judge who sentenced a former manager and head teller Tuesday also ordered them to each pay $321,497 in restitution, an amount that represented nearly 78% of the credit union’s assets that was liquidated because of their embezzlement.

U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams sentenced Gwendolyn Dubose, the former manager and treasurer of $412,775 Greater Abyssinia Federal Credit Union in Cleveland, to five years and three months in federal prison. Head teller Kolade Awoyade was sentenced to five years and eight months, according to court documents. They were also sentenced to four years of supervised release following their prison sentence.

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