URBANA – A former Paxton bank employee was sentenced to federal prison for embezzling more than a quarter-million dollars.
U.S. Central District of Illinois Chief Judge Michael McCuskey on Thursday sentenced Rebekah Etheridge, 31, to two years and three months in federal prison and ordered her to pay $278,247 in restitution to the Farmers-Merchants National Bank in Paxton. The judge also sentenced her to five years of supervised release, formerly known as parole, after her release from prison.
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