LANCASTER, Penn. – A branch manager for LANCO FCU was charged Friday with stealing $27,300 in vault cash.
Tammy Margucci, 34, confessed to stealing the money, telling police she used it "to pay off a credit card and start her acting career."
Margucci was one of three employees at the Mount Joy branch.
After Thanksgiving, while Margucci was on vacation, her colleagues needed to get into the vault for cash to fill the tellers' drawers, police said. But when they counted the money on Dec. 1, police said, they came up $27,300 short.
The employees contacted management, which immediately came in and performed an audit. The credit union discovered the money was last counted Nov. 18 by Margucci, who also forged one of the teller's initials as helping her count the money.
