Trio Pleads Guilty To Multistate ATM Theft Spree

Three Massachusetts men pleaded guilty last week to orchestrating a sophisticated multistate ATM robbery spree, netting them $500,000, including more than $170,000 stolen from a credit union ATM. David Barker, 39, Efrain Montero, 41, and Jonathan Santos, 35, of...

Federal Judge Approves Home Depot Data Breach Settlement

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash on Friday approved a settlement between Home Depot and financial institutions, including credit unions, in a suit filed in the wake of a 2014 data breach at the retailer. Several state credit union leagues and CUNA were plaintiffs in...

First CU Communication Coming From Decimated Puerto Rico

JetStream FCU branch in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Image taken Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 Jeanne Kucey, president/CEO of the $196 million JetStream Federal Credit Union released the following statement to CU Times regarding the status of their Carolina, Puerto Rico branch...

Former CEO Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Christine Darley, former president/CEO of a merged Nebraska credit union, will be sentenced in December after she pleaded guilty to a felony count of bank fraud Thursday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln. In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors dropped five bank...