PORTLAND, Maine — A former KeyBank teller who admitted to stealing $10,000 from her drawer over eight months after being pressured by her drug-addicted husband was sentenced Monday in federal court to time served, according to U.S. District Court documents.
Annamarie J. Skillings, 27, of Limerick was ordered by U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen to repay the money.
Skillings, who has no prior criminal history and two young children, was pressured by her husband, who is “addicted to heroin and opiates,” her public defender, Hilary Billings, said in a sentencing memorandum. “He was not working and he was depleting their marital funds to satisfy his drug habit.” He also threatened to take Skillings’ children, the attorney said.
Skillings, who pleaded guilty to bank theft in December, “is truly ashamed over what she has done,” Billings said.
Torresen gave Skillings four years of supervised release, with conditions she hand over her financial information and a DNA sample, submit to probation officer visits at any time and not incur new credit charges or apply for credit without permission from her supervising officer, federal court documents state.
Skillings, who was working as a KeyBank client services manager at the bank’s Kennebunk branch, had faced a penalty of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.
The theft was discovered on July 18, 2011, when an unscheduled audit of Skillings’ drawer was conducted, according to the prosecution version of events. In an interview that same day, Skillings admitted to a bank investigator that she had been stealing from her drawer between the summer or fall of 2010 and July 2011, and had taken steps to conceal her crime, according to the documents.
Information about what efforts she made to cover up her actions were not revealed in court documents.
Skillings has since divorced her husband, Billings said.
BDN reporter Judy Harrison contributed to this article.
Skillings, who was working as a KeyBank client services manager at the bank’s Kennebunk branch, had faced a penalty of up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.
Looks like this was essentially plea-bargained down to “fishing without a license.” If this had been a man stealing to supply his drug-addicted wife, does anyone think the sentence would be to simply repay the $10,000 and get 4 years of supervised release?
You are SOOOO right. This story sickens me.
It is rare that a woman breaks down a man to do her will. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but it is rare compared to the number of men that mentally and physical abuse women. I’m willing to be she lived in constant fear for herself and her children.
How many men have you known that have lived in fear for their life and children because their wife was a drug addict that abused them?
She did not simply get a slap on the wrist. Her life is pretty much destroyed thanks to a drug addicted husband but you want to come along and state I bet a man wouldn’t get this sort of sentence.
Please get back on your horse and ride away because your comment is beyond ridiculous.
Information about what efforts she made to cover up her actions were not revealed in court documents.
It’s usually done by taking money from customer accounts. The bank should just admit it.
They do not want anybody else to know how easy it was lol.
It’s easy because they look for customers who won’t notice the withdrawals from their accounts.
27 years old with two children and a husband whom was mentally abusing her is all I need to know. The court would have not done this without the bank’s approval. This young lady made a terrible mistake and all of you want to destroy her life further. Why take a mother whom committed a white collar crime from her children? Where is the compassion in this society anymore? You folks want to pin a medal on one drug dealer killing another but hang a mother who loved her children. Shame!
Deliberately taking money that’s not yours and trying to cover it up is not a “mistake.” She had options.
Taking another beating is not an option in my book! There is always two sides to every story but obviously you and your “likes” know best. BDN Posters are the new witch trial jurors!
She could have gone to the police and left her husband. Hurting others was not right.
Who did she hurt? The bank is being reimbursed and her children still have a mother. I hope you are never put in a no win situation and have people like yourself tell you how easy the answer really was. Obviously you have never been in or exposed to an abusive situation and how you can be forced into an irrational situation. No, you are perfect per your posts!
Who did she hurt? The bank and its customers! Do you think that if I steal your money it’s OK, as long as I pay it back in a few years?
She made a choice — the wrong choice.
You just don’t understand spousal abuse or empathy so there is no reasoning with you.
I do understand. I also understand that there is always a way out without hurting others.
She hurt herself with having a record now and she hurt her children who someday is going to find out that her mother chose her druggie husband over “the right thing to do”.
She went to work every day and every day she had an opportunity to contact an authority as to what was going on and get her and those children out of the house. According to what she told investigators she had been doing it for a year so for that year alone her children were in the same home as he was so why are you upset over what others opinions are of this woman?
she didnt just steal money once….the first time might have been a mistake..the second and all the times after that was on purpose…..
You just don’t understand spousal abuse or empathy so there is no reasoning with you.
I think the judge probably took into account the miserable bank she worked for. KeyBank treats employees like garbage and is known for belittling and humiliating employees throughout Maine and across the country, compliments of the infamous Tony Cole management philosophy.
She has been the gift of a second chance. I hope she uses it well.
Unreal! all I can say.
OHHHHHHHHHH, she ratted out her ex’s dealers. a no brainer there to get that kinda deal!
If she just shot him, she woulda got a medal and another 10 grand
The headline says she was credited for time served, but the story doesn’t tell us how long she was in jail. Also, I doubt the reporter filed this story from Portland. Datelines are for telling readers from where the story was filed.
White Collar type crimes are routinely whitewashed here in Maine.
And , sadly , it seems like many more types of crime as well.
I feel sad for the kids!! :/
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