CASA GRANDE, Ariz. An accounting clerk at Pinal County FCU has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling $781,000 by sending unauthorized checks to her mother’s Wells Fargo account.
Jennelle Curtis pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to two counts of embezzlement and is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9.
Curtis confessed to stealing the funds between 2008 and 2011 by issuing checks made payable to her mother, Janet Long, then falsifying the payee’s name on the credit union’s records to appear to be “Chase” bank. The checks were eventually deposited into a Wells Fargo account belonging to Janet Long to which Curtis had access.
Curtis worked at the $100 million credit union between 2002 and 2012, when she was fired after the scheme was discovered.
