Credit union loan manager blames $840K embezzlement on abuse
An Enfield woman who embezzled more than $840,000 while working as lending manager of a Windsor Locks credit union — and blamed her crime on severe abuse and financial demands by her ex-husband — was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison as a federal judge only partially accepted her explanation.
During her marriage, the defendant, Pamela Mallory, “had been raped, beaten, had her head pushed through walls, was thrown into the fireplace, body-slammed to the floor, threatened with an ax, and threatened with a gun, all by her husband,” defense lawyer Robert B. Muchinsky wrote in his sentencing memorandum.
Creditors were “hounding” her then-husband, Jonathan Mallory, over some $150,000 in debts according to Muchinsky, who said that his response was “to break furniture and beat Pamela Mallory.”
The defense lawyer quoted the couple’s daughter Stephanie, who is in medical school, as saying that “when her mother tried to come to her father over their financial issues, he would scream at her that she needed to make it go away.”
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