ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said yesterday it barred a former vice president of member services at State Department FCU for his conviction 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, he was charged with credit union theft, embezzlement and misappropriation.
Jones 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 created phony retail invoices for which he was reimbursed, and falsified dinner receipts he paid for with his credit union-issued MasterCard in order to qualify them for reimbursements.
NCUA also barred: Donald Brown, Jr., a former manager of 1st United Labor FCU, Louisville, Ky.; Jessica Franco, former loan officer at Navy Army FCU, Corpus Christi, Texas; Ana Gonzalez, former head teller at Southland FCU, Lufkin, Texas; Tracy Hitt, former employee at Magnolia FCU, Jackson, Miss. and Christina Pushnik, former teller at Stanwood Area FCU, New Stanton, Penn.
