Tuesday, April 13, 2010

South Dakota Woman Charged With Embezzling $100K From Bank Customer Accounts

Margaret Hussey, 67, of Rapid City, South Dakota, has been charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from customer accounts at First Western Federal Security Bank where she had been employed as a general manager. According to prosecutors, over a three year period between 2006 and 2009, Hussey forged names on at least six withdrawal slips from the accounts of four bank customers. She has plead not guilty to the charges which include aggravated and aggregated grand theft by embezzlement and forgery.

Read the story here.

Update (10/5/10): Hussey was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

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