RESIDENT OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE SENTENCED TO ONE MONTH FORSTEALING $32,000 FROM MANCHESTER CREDIT UNION

CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: United States Attorney Tom Colantuono and Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kenneth W. Kaiser, announced that Melissa Ann Meyers, a 39-year-old resident of 40 Collings Landing in Weare, New Hampshire, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Joseph DiClerico to one month in jail and nine months home confinement for stealing $32,000 from her former employer, Members First Credit Union.

According to the Indictment that charged Meyers with Bank Fraud, Meyers worked as the Assistant Operations Manager for a branch office of the credit union in Manchester. As such,she was authorized to take cash from the credit union’s vault and place it in three cash dispenser machines that were used by the credit union’s tellers to replenish their cash drawers. The Indictment also alleged that from approximately September 2002 to July 2005, Meyers stole approximately $32,000 by periodically taking money from the vault, and concealing that conduct by submitting documents to the credit union that falsely reported that the money had been placed in the credit union’s cash dispenser machines.

After Meyers was sentenced, United States Attorney Colantuono said, “The United States Department of Justice will prosecute all crimes that target federally insured banks,including any crime that is committed by an employee of a federally insured bank.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Kinsella prosecuted this case.