A former credit union employee who pleaded guilty in a million dollar fraud case will be sentenced January 28.
Justice Patrick Hurley heard sentencing submissions Thursday afternoon in the case of Cheryl Drumm, who pleaded guilty to Fraud over $5,000 and Laundering Proceeds of Crime last October.
In 2016, Drumm and two others were charged with stealing more than $1 million from her employer, Bayshore Credit Union over a four-and-a-half-year period.
Bayshore Credit Union is now Quinte Credit Union.
The charges against the other two people were dropped after they agreed to pay civil restitution.
Crown Attorney David Isbester said they are seeking an 18-month jail sentence, three years probation and some other conditions including that some of the $89,000 she benefitted from in the fraud be paid back during her probation.
Isbester acknowledged that while Drumm may have begun the fraud in order to help out two other people, she still kept almost $90,000 for herself.
Drumm, who currently lives with her son and is employed in Belleville, told Justice Hurley she is a very different person than she was 12 years ago when this began and that she realizes liberties were taken and there are consequences for her actions.
