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Former CU Teller Gets Six-Month Home Confinement for $40,000 Theft

Though prosecutors call Ya’Minah Unique Taylor’s criminal acts egregious, they note mitigating factors warrant a light sentence.

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A federal judge sentenced a former credit union teller to six months of home confinement and three years of probation for her role in stealing $40,000 from a member’s account at the $5 billion Virginia Credit Union based in North Chesterfield, Va.

U.S. District Court Judge Roderick C. Young in Richmond also ordered Ya’Minah Unique Taylor to pay $40,000 in restitution during a sentencing hearing on Wednesday. The 22-year-old Taylor, who worked at the credit union’s Winterfield Branch in Midlothian, pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in November. The maximum prison sentence for conspiracy to commit bank fraud is 30 years.

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