A former Northwest Community Credit Union employee was sentenced Friday, Nov. 13, to 2½ years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing from the accounts of deceased credit union members.
Teresa Lynn Margiotta, 51, of Springfield, pleaded guilty in October in Lane County Circuit Court to three counts of aggravated identity theft and two counts of aggravated first-degree theft.
She was arrested in January by Eugene police. In a news release, the Lane County District Attorney’s office said Margiotta embezzled more than $232,000 from the accounts of deceased members of Northwest Community Credit Union, which is now known as Peak Credit Union…