An Oakmont woman was sentenced to prison Tuesday after pleading guilty in federal court to bank fraud.
The Justice Department said Christy Myers, 64, embezzled around $250,000 from her employer across five years.
She was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison and five years on parole when she is released.
Myers worked for a company bought by another company, referred to only as SSA in court documents. She then became an employee of SSA, where she had access to accounting records of both companies. She was able to issue checks from both companies’ bank accounts.
According to a Justice Department press release, Myers used a “variety of methods” to take the money between April 2016 and June 2021.
From April 2016 to August 2018, she deposited checks that had been made out to the no-longer-existing company into its bank account, which should have been closed after its purchase, according to court documents.
Myers then issued checks from SSA to the old company from May 2018 to May 2021, depositing those funds into the bank account that should have been closed.
She withdrew money from that account through checks payable to cash, using local business names, other current and former employees’ names or service terms on the check’s memo lines. She also forged employees’ signatures on various checks.
Myers also withdrew funds from the bank account through electronic transfers to her personal credit cards, court documents show.
This is the second time Myers has been convicted of bank fraud in federal court. She served time in prison after pleading guilty in 2007 for her part in a mortgage fraud scheme while she worked as an assistant manager at Citizens Bank.