West Virginia Code 31C-12-1 – Criminal liability
Any credit union officer, director, employee or agent, who willfully does any of the following shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, may, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not less than one year nor more than five years, or both:
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 31C-12-1
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
(a) With intent to deceive, falsifies any books of account, report, statement, record or other document of a credit union whether by alteration, false entry, omission or otherwise;
(b) Signs, issues, publishes or transmits to a government agency any book of account, report, statement, record or other document which that person knows to be false;
(c) By means of deceit, obtains a signature to a writing which is the subject of forgery;
(d) With intent to deceive, destroys any credit union book of account, report, statement, record or other document.