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Guam woman gets prison sentence for bank scam
Ruby J. Ngirmekur, 38, was sentenced in U.S. District Court of Guam last Wednesday by designated judge Ramona V. Manglona to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud.
The court also ordered her to pay $13,090 in restitution and a $100 assessment fee, and to perform 50 hours of community service.
According to Shawn N. Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, Ngirmekur and others participated in an ATM debit-fraud and check-fraud scheme involving Bank of Guam funds and checks drawn from other financial institutions spanning from May 2014 to July 2014.
As part of the conspiracy, the defendant deposited fraudulent checks into third-party Bank of Guam accounts via ATM transactions, and then withdrew funds based upon those checks.
For the entire period of the conspiracy, the defendant and her co-conspirators attempted to obtain $95,100 from Bank of Guam by depositing over 120 fraudulent checks drawn from closed and nonsufficient funds accounts at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Bank of Hawaii, and Navy Federal Credit Union.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Guam Police Department, and prosecuted by Marivic P. David, assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Guam. (PR)
