Missouri Resident Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Bank Funds
| U.S. Attorney’s Office January 23, 2014 |
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA—On January 22, 2014, Tiffany Ann Stanley, a 40-year-old resident of Tarkio, Missouri, previously of Shenandoah, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie Rose to four months in prison, followed by four months of home confinement, and four years of supervised release for theft by a bank employee, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
On June 6, 2013, Stanley pled guilty to the charge thjat was the result of an investigation conducted into a reported bank robbery of the Great Western Bank of Riverton, Iowa. On November 17, 2012, Stanley reported to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office that she was forced to give money to a male robber. The investigation showed that Stanley was not robbed but reported the robbery to cover her stealing of bank funds during the course of her employment as a teller.
As part of her sentence, Stanley was ordered to pay $25,166.40 in restitution to the Great Western Bank.
The investigation was conducted by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.