BANGOR, Maine — A Hancock woman pleaded guilty of embezzling more than $83,000 from her former employer during a hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor.
Jodi L. Webber, 37, was hired by Camden National Bank in September 2015 as a teller at its Town Hill branch in Bar Harbor, according to court documents.
Between November 2015 and February 2016, Webber stole more than $83,000 in cash from her teller drawer and concealed it by replacing the stolen money with funds withdrawn from five customer accounts.
These transactions were not authorized and she forged customer signatures on the withdrawal slips, the U.S. attorney’s office said Wednesday in a news release.
Webber typically reversed those withdrawals on the same day that she made them after the bank’s cash audit had been completed, according to the news release.
Her embezzlement scheme was discovered when a customer questioned an unauthorized withdrawal from the customer’s account. That inquiry caused the bank to conduct a comprehensive examination of the defendant’s transactions and to contact law enforcement.
Webber faces up to 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. She will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.
The case was investigated by the FBI.