Ex-Manager Looted College CU

MADISON, N.J. - (05/25/05) -- A former operations manager atFairleigh Dickinson University FCU pleaded guilty Monday toembezzling $2.2 million from the $18 million credit union byopening a dozen accounts under phony names, including one in thename of his cat. Daniel Doyle, Jr., 60, confessed to using histeller code to open accounts under several aliases, including DannyOcean, the protagonist in the hit movie 'Ocean's Eleven,' AnthonyPino, and Cocoa Tin, his cat. He was caught last year aftertransferring funds between the phony accounts and accounts in hisown name, then making withdrawals at ATMs. Doyle was arrested in2003 after his scheme was discovered in an audit. Shortly after hisarrest he ran into more trouble when it was discovered he wasillegally keeping several exotic animals, including a lynx, twoskunks, and 11 sugar gliders, a type of small marsupial, locked upin a room in a Motel 8 Raritan Borough.

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