Friday, January 13, 2012

Sentencing Postponed For Convicted Embezzler

{Charleston,  West Virginia}...Bonnie Jean Bain, 60, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a West Side Charleston BB&T, where she worked as a teller, had her sentencing postponed Thursday. Bank investigators found in a pre-sentence report that Bain stole about $640,000, but U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. said the report failed to explain how investigators arrived at that amount. Bain's lawyer, federal public defender Mary Lou Newberger, said the amount Bain embezzled is probably closer to $293,000, an amount that could shave months off her prison sentence. Bain's sentencing to was rescheduled for February 6th.