Bank employee pleads to embezzling
Published 9:50 am Wednesday, April 18, 2012
MANKATO — A bank officer has pleaded guilty to embezzling from her employer in Mankato.
Sixty-five-year-old Carolyn Faye Hampel, of Jackson, entered the plea to embezzlement by a bank officer during a hearing in federal court in St. Paul Tuesday. Hampel admitted stealing between $30,000 and $120,000 from customers of the United Prairie Bank from 2005 to 2011.
The FBI investigated the case. A sentencing date has not been set.