ALEXANDRIA, Va. — NCUA banned a former manager of the Veterans Administration branch of The Credit Union of Leavenworth Thursday from working for credit unions or banks for stealing $330,000 from members she had personally befriended
Carla Welborn, who is currently serving a 21-month prison sentence, targeted the accounts of members she knew were not receiving monthly balance statements or those who lived out of town, were ill or near death by siphoning funds from their accounts. When a member asked for a written statement, she would send them falsified records. She kept track of all of the embezzled funds in a handwritten ledger.
Eventually Welborn, who was working the VA branch with her son, began stealing cash directly from the credit unions' vault, often telling her son, who was supposed to conduct a second cash tally, the cash was already counted and need not be checked.
NCUA also banned two employees of Mountain America CU, Monica Guzman and Travis Jenkins, for embezzlement; and Michael Swanka, a former employee of Remington FCU for stealing $12,300 from the Richfield Springs, N.Y., credit union.
