A former Brighton Bank employee and an alleged accomplice have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they defrauded the financial institution of nearly $300,000.
Named in the superseding indictment released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Thursday were Shonagh Davis, of Pleasant Grove, and Lance Mann King, Midvale.The two are scheduled to appear for trial Jan. 24 before U.S. District Judge David Sam.
The indictment alleges that from August to November of 1991, Davis, then a Brighton Bank operations officer, cashed $270,500 in insufficient fund checks for King.
The 16 checks listed in the indictment range from one for $6,500 cashed on Aug. 21, 1991, to one for $60,000, processed on Nov. 27, 1991.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tena Campbell said Davis would accept checks from King, usually made payable to King, written on accounts of his relatives and acquaintances.
"Davis and King well knew that there were not sufficient funds in the accounts on which the checks were drawn to cover the checks," Campbell states in court documents.
As part of the alleged scheme, Davis purportedly placed the checks - once returned unpaid by the banks on which they were drawn - in Brighton's suspense account.
Efforts to reach Davis and King for comment were unsuccessful. Neither had listed numbers in the hometowns provided by the U.S. District Court clerk's office.