Alex Spirikaitis, the former Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union CEO who had been an FBI fugitive for months following the collapse of the $24 million-asset Cleveland CU was captured by FBI agents Monday in the Collinwood area of the city.

WASHINGTON — CUNA reported Monday it made $188,000 in campaign contributions last month, much of it to innocuous-sounding groups like "PAC to the Future," "Wild and Wonderful PAC" and "Prosperity PAC," allowing the credit union lobby to effectively give twice the legal $10,000 limit to some committee chairmen and other congressional leaders.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve told a U.S. Appeals Court Monday afternoon that its rule setting swipe fee caps under the Durbin Amendment should be allowed to stand because the Fed set the cap "in complete fealty to the statute and its purpose."

PITTSBURGH—Former city police Chief Nathan Harper pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges that he conspired to steal police funds deposited into unauthorized account with the Pittsburgh Police FCU.

Brookfield, Wis.—Sixty percent of consumers make at least one payment per month with a laptop or desktop computer, according to a survey commissioned by Fiserv.

SAGINAW, Mich.—A Wildfire CU member had $2,000 returned to him Friday after leaving an envelope with the cash in the parking lot of the CU's Bay Road office.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—NCUA reported Monday that it approved the combination of First Community FCU in Parchment, Mich., and E&A CU in Port Huron, creating another $1 billion credit union, Michigan's ninth.

Madison, Wis.—University of Wisconsin Credit Union may have just started cutting a path to building mobile apps at a fraction of the usual cost.

DES MOINES - TMG Financial Services, one of the leading card processors for credit unions has named Jon Sarvis, its chief financial officer the past six years, as its new CEO.

WASHINGTON - NAFCU called on Senate leaders Friday to delay scheduled rate hikes under the National Flood Insurance Program until the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes its affordability impact study and Congress is able to review the findings.

HOUSTON – PrimeWay FCU rolled out a new advertising and marketing campaign introducing its own “Financial Freedom Fighters” to educate and market to members featuring everyday credit union personnel disguised as superheroes.

BALTIMORE—When members walk into the Golden Ring office of Point Breeze CU these days, Branch Manager Shannon Carter likes what she sees—and hears.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The National Credit Union Administration announced Friday that D. Scott Neat has been named director of supervision in the Office of Examination and Insurance.

WASHINGTON -- Tucked away in the Congressional budget deal hammered out to end the government shutdown is a 1% pay raise for all federal workers in January, which could give National Credit Union Administration employees their second pay hike in a matter of months.

TAMPA, Fla.—Motorists lined up their cars early Thursday morning to fill up on free gas courtesy of GTE Financial FCU, which held the giveaway in recognition of International Credit Union Day.

NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. – SAFE CU plans to move its headquarters to Folsom by the end of 2014 after buying a three-story office building on Iron Point Road best known as the former base for Waste Connections Inc.

FERNDALE, Mich. – Credit Union ONE has signed with Fiserv to implement the company’s Open Solutions DNA core processing solution.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The NCUA Board next week will issue for comment a proposal requiring the largest credit unions, those over $10 billion in assets, to undergo stress tests similar to those applied by the Federal Reserve to the biggest banks.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A supervisor at Columbus CU who reported a robbery at the CU last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to separately stealing $437,000 herself from the credit union's vault, ATM and cash shipments.

In what will be a reoccurring feature, Credit Union Journal visits with IT professionals—the often unsung CU heroes—to better understand how organizational goals are executed.