EUGENE, Ore. – A former supervisor and assistant branch manager at SELCO Community CU on Wednesday was sentenced to a year of home detention for stealing $146,000 over eight years that she used to pay for a gambling addiction.
SELCO representatives asked the federal judge to send Lenora Colburn, 49, to prison, but the judge declined.
Colburn will spend five years of supervised release, serve 600 hours of community service, and is barred from entering a casino or any other place where gambling occurs.
Colburn worked for SELCO from 1986 to May 2011 in a variety of positions, including teller supervisor, operations supervisor and assistant manager. Her position as a supervisor and an assistant manager allowed her to facilitate and conceal her embezzlement by creating phony cash transactions and manipulating cash drawer and vault balances, and branch audits.
