Bank Employee Indicted on Embezzlement Charges
| U.S. Attorney’s Office April 12, 2011 |
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Adrian Carroll, age 27, of Newnan, Georgia, was charged in a one-count indictment with embezzlement by a bank employee, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 656.
The indictment alleges that from September 2008 through May 2009, Carroll embezzled more than $1,000.00 from Carolina First Bank, where she worked as a bank employee.
Nettles stated the maximum penalty that CARROLL could receive is a fine of $1,000,000 and/or imprisonment of 30 years.
Mr. Nettles stated that the case was investigated by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that he has assigned the case to Assistant United States Attorney Rhett DeHart of the Charleston office for prosecution.
The United States Attorney stated that all charges in this Indictment are merely accusations and that all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.