ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The former vice president of member services at State Department FCU last week was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he falsified $170,000 in expense reimbursement reports, including funds he had the credit union pay for his graduate school tuition.
Anthony Jones was fired by the credit union earlier this year after the scheme was discovered, according to the indictment, on charges of credit union theft, embezzlement and misappropriation.
Jones allegedly obtained $11,400 in reimbursements in two instances, purportedly to send four employees to leadership training at the University of Maryland, but used half of the funds to pay for his own graduate school tuition, then received a rebate of the other half as over-payment of tuition.
He also is charged with creating phony retail invoices for which he was reimbursed, and falsifying dinner receipts he paid for with his credit union-issued MasterCard in order to qualify them for reimbursements.
Jones confessed to the scheme in a letter to credit union executives.
