Imperial Valley News Imperial Valley News Center Commerce Bank Branch Manager Sentenced to Nearly 3½ Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Over $1 Million from Customer with Dementia Details Written by FBI
Los Angeles, California - A former Comerica bank branch manager was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for stealing more than $1 million from an elderly customer with dementia, and then using it for her own personal benefit, including to finance her gambling.
Marie Fulle, 38, of Newport Beach, was sentenced via videoconference by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, who also ordered her to pay $1,091,230 in restitution. Fulle pleaded guilty in September 2019 to two counts of bank fraud.
Marie Fulle was ordered to spend nearly three and a half years in federal prison and pay $1.09 million in restitution for stealing money from an elderly customer with dementia.
TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) A former branch manager of a Southern California bank was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison for stealing $1 million from a customer with dementia, federal prosecutors said. Marie Fulle, 38, pleaded guilty in September 2019 to two counts of bank fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Fulle cultivated an “exclusive banking relationship” with the older man at the Comerica branch in Tustin,.