Englewood Cliffs woman sentenced for embezzling $1.35M while working at Fort Lee bank
Rejecting pleas for leniency, a judge Tuesday sentenced an Englewood Cliffs mother of two to nearly seven years in federal prison for embezzling $1.35 million from the accounts of elderly customers while working as an officer at a Fort Lee bank.
“You are a bank robber without the typical weapons,” U.S. District Judge William H. Walls told Miye “Karen” Chon, 36, during a hearing in Newark before imposing sentences for fraud, embezzlement and identity theft totaling 81 months in prison.
Referencing the notorious bank robber Willie Sutton, the judge said Chon ”stole considerable amounts” of money over a period of three years from the bank “because that’s where the money was.”
Chon was employed by BankAsiana as an assistant vice president and operations officer in Fort Lee until the bank was acquired by Wilshire Bank in October 2013, according to court documents.
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