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The former executive director of the Ohio County Schools Public Credit Union has admitted embezzling $156,000 from it.
According to prosecutors, 65-year-old Kathleen Gramlich, of Valley Grove, took the money to pay personal debts from 2013 through 2016.
Gramlich pleaded guilty to one felony count of theft from a credit union.
As part of the plea deal, she agreed to forfeit any personal property to repay the money.
She was released pending sentencing.
The former director of a credit union for a West Virginia county’s school workers is facing charges of embezzling at least $156,300.
Former Ohio County Public Schools Federal Credit Union executive director Kathleen Gramlich was charged in a federal information Thursday in U.S. District Court in Wheeling.
The court filing says Gramlich embezzled the money between June 2013 and March 2016 to pay off personal debts.
The credit union serves about 1,000 current, former and retired Ohio County public school workers and their families.
The U.S. attorney’s office in northern West Virginia says Gramlich faces up to 30 years in prison if she’s convicted.
U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II said the accounts of credit union members were never in jeopardy.