BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman who worked nearly 40 years in the banking industry has been sentenced to two years in prison for stealing an estimated $650,000 from her employer.
The Ledger reports Circuit Judge Mark Carpanini handed down the sentence on Wednesday after 58-year-old Susan Gail Alderman pleaded no contest to charges of forgery and grand theft for taking money from CenterState Bank.
In an arrest affidavit Alderman claimed she was scammed by a man she met on a social media dating site who told her he needed $450,000, in addition to other money she’d already given him, for legal fees after being charged with murder for a Ukraine mining incident. Another man told her he needed $90,000.
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Alderman apologized on Wednesday. Her attorney said she never profited from the theft.
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