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Former Bank Worker Guilty of Stealing From Work20 March 2002BOSTON, Massachusetts – As reported by the Boston Herald: "A former supervisor at the Brockton Credit Union will have to come up with $80,000 to repay her ex-employer after pleading guilty to ripping off a branch and apparently losing most of the money by gambling, federal prosecutors said yesterday. "Tara L. Whittemore, 27, of West Harwich, pleaded guilty to bank larceny and was sentenced in federal court in Boston on Monday to four months in prison and three years of supervised release, starting with four months of home detention. "…Whittemore had taken the money to finance a gambling spree for herself and her fiance at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, prosecutors said. The two casino regulars bet and lost $60,000 in the three days before the money turned up missing, prosecutors said, citing Foxwoods records. "…Federal prosecutors said a credit union branch office discovered $80,000 was missing from its vault on Oct. 24, 1998. "Later, Whittemore, an assistant teller supervisor, told her bosses that she had been robbed at gunpoint by a masked man, prosecutors said. "…But, prosecutors said, there had been no gunman and no robbery…' |