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Not guilty plea in Allied Credit Union case A Jackson woman pleaded not guilty last week to federal fraud charges alleging that she siphoned money from a credit union where she served as manager from 1991 to 2005. Pamela Fogelman Gwin, 67, allegedly took about $60,000 from Allied Credit Union. She pleaded not guilty April 9. She declined to comment, saying she had not even had an opportunity to discuss the case with her court-appointed lawyer, who was out of town last week. According to an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Mobile, Gwin used her position at Allied Credit Union to approve loans and advances to herself. She allegedly submitted documents that falsely indicated the amount of various loans, the recipients of the proceeds, the internal classifications of the loans and the amounts of collateral. The indictment alleges six specific instances in 2000 or later. Those were the instances that occurred recently enough to be charged under the statute of limitations, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Costello said, but the indictment states that Gwin's fraudulent activity occurred as early as December 1991. "It's a long, long time," he said. "It's something that no one was aware of until relatively recently."
Costello declined to discuss how the alleged wrongdoing came to light or why it remained undetected for so long, but he suggested that the defendant's position in charge of the branch played a role. The allegedly fraudulent transactions were as follows:
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