Former Credit Union Employee Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison Without Parole for Stealing Money from Texas Plains Federal Credit Union
| U.S. Attorney’s Office February 09, 2010 |
AMARILLO, TX—A former employee of Texas Plains Federal Credit Union, Shannon Leigh Layton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $221,000 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. She must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on March 1, 2010. Layton pleaded guilty in December 2009 to making false entries by a credit union employee.
According to plea documents filed in the case, Layton began stealing money from the credit union in 2002. Between 2002 and August 2009, she stole approximately $221,000 from the credit union. She admitted that she would steal the money from the vault and then alter the money count and other reconciliation records to conceal the thefts.
Documents also reveal that in 2009, she was overcome with remorse and went to the Amarillo Police Department and confessed that she had been stealing money from the credit union.
The case was investigated by the FBI and Amarillo Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Drake of the Amarillo, Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office.