NCUA Approves 24 Mergers in August

The NCUA approved 24 mergers in August, the highest number of consolidations in one month so far this year. In July, the federal agency approved only 11 mergers. Five credit unions were approved to merge because of their poor financial condition, and two because of...

Former CU Office Manager Faces Sentencing

A former credit union office manager will be sentenced in December after she admitted to embezzling nearly $180,000 from a failed New York credit union. Norma Gold, 57, of Eldred, Pa., pleaded guilty to false entries in federal credit union reports, last week in U.S....

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...