HELENA, Mont. – Ben Diveley, 34, has been ordered to pay $88,818 in restitution and spend the next year in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement, money laundering and identity theft in connection with his job as a loan officer at Helena Community CU here.
He will also serve five years probation after release.
Diveley pleaded guilty to all three charges against him. A five-year employee of HCCU, Diveley stole the money by approving a line of credit from which he could made withdrawals. Diveley reportedly circumvented the credit union’s security measures against such internal fraud by using a co-worker’s PC and issuing the check to himself.
