Sacramento County woman to serve a year in federal prison for bank fraud
A Sacramento County woman was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in federal prison for cashing a stolen check at a Sacramento bank, part of a larger case that prosecutors said involved stealing multiple checks from mailboxes and cashing them throughout the area.
Windy Lund pleaded guilty in November in federal court in Sacramento to one count of bank fraud, admitting that she altered a stolen mortgage check to add herself as a payee, and deposited it at a Bank of America ATM in Sacramento.
In a filed pleading, Lund said that in September 2022 she deposited the check for about $2,100 into a bank account that she alone controlled. She admitted that the deposit was part of a scheme “to obtain monies, funds, credits, assets, securities, and other property” from financial institutions, including Bank of America.
On Tuesday, District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Lund to a prison term of one year and one day, said Lauren Horwood, a spokesperson for Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith.
Lund’s co-defendant in the scheme, Adam Lee, also pleaded guilty in November, admitting to four counts of bank fraud, as well as possession of stolen mail and possession of a mailbox key. He was sentenced April 8 to 64 months in prison.
Lee admitted to stealing four checks worth about $51,000 from mailboxes and altering them to make himself a payee. In the fall of 2022, he deposited a check for about $16,000 at a Bank of the West ATM in Carmichael, one worth about $9,000 at a Bank of America ATM in Sacramento, and two more checks at ATMs in Roseville, his plea statement said.
Lee also admitted that in the first two months of 2023 he was in possession of stolen mail from an apartment complex in Roseville, along with a key that worked with U.S. Postal Service locks.
