A former Alabama bank vice president has been sentenced to prison for embezzling more than $2 million over 10 years.

U.S. District Judge Liles C. Burke sentenced 54-year-old Kellie L. Johnson, of Cullman, to five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.

Johnson pleaded guilty to embezzlement in May.

According to the plea agreement, Johnson was employed with First Community Bank for about 25 years.

Between July 2013 and June 2023, Johnson embezzled money from First Community Bank’s Federal Reserve account to pay personal expenses, primarily credit card bills.

To conceal her scheme, authorities said, Johnson falsified transactions to reconcile the balance of the Federal Reserve account in the bank’s general ledger and deleted her ACH transactions.

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