SIOUX CITY, Iowa – A former branch manager for Advantage One CU Tuesday pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $362,000 through a phony loan scheme. Robin Andersen pleaded guilty to four counts of bank fraud and two counts of money laundering. Sentencing was set for Jan. 8, 2008. Andersen was charged with using members’ names and identifiers to obtain credit cards and loans from November 2000 through October 2004.
The $736 million Orange County bank had faced a smattering of enforcement actions over the years, including for concentration risks, governance issues and questionable insider transactions.
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