Prison term imposed in fraud at two banks

A former employee who stole money from two separate banks will spend a year and nine months in federal prison, the U. S. attorney's office said.Janei London-Walker, 31, of Buffalo, was sentenced Tuesday by District Judge William M. Skretny for four felonies, including bank fraud, filing false tax returns and making false statements on a government loan application. While working at KeyBank in 2005, London-Walker set up a fake account and deposited more than $109,000 into it from the accounts of other bank customers, prosecutor Gretchen L. Wylegala said. The money was then withdrawn from automated teller machines by the woman's husband, Bernard Walker, who also faces sentencing in the case.London-Walker left KeyBank before those crimes were discovered and began working at HSBC Bank, where she later withdrew $21,000 from a dormant account belonging to a deceased customer, according to prosecutors. Posted in: Internal Fraud