NORWICH, Conn. A 62-year-old grandmother was sentenced to probation after she confessed to stealing almost $21,000 from Connecticut Community CU from the credit union’s branch inside Foxwoods Resort Casino and gambling it away there.
Yolanda O’Keefe stole the money by replacing $100 bills at her teller station with $1 bills.
The judge, acknowledging the stolen money had been repaid, granted O’Keefe’s request for accelerated rehabilitation, a special form of probation. It means if she stays out of trouble for the next two years, the first-degree larceny charge against her will be dropped and she will have a clean record.
O’Keefe also will have to attend and complete a Gamblers Anonymous program and perform 50 hours of community service. She is banned from the credit union, casinos and other gambling establishments.
O’Keefe was arrested Sept. 25 after it was discovered that $100 bills in the middle of stacks of cash in the vault and in O’Keefe’s teller drawer had been replaced with $1 bills.
