BOISE—Shawna Lea Pennington, 40, of
Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to six
months in prison and six months of home detention for bank fraud and bankruptcy
fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J.
Lodge also ordered Pennington to serve five years of supervised release. She
pled guilty to the charges on March 20, 2012.
According to the plea agreement,
Pennington admitted to submitting a loan application to Zions Bank in March
2010 with a false and fictitious earnings statement and Form W-2, as well as
falsely representing the amount of cash in checking and savings accounts. Zions
Bank funded the loan based on the misrepresentations. In December 2010,
Pennington filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition. She admitted to failing to
disclose the names of creditors on her bankruptcy schedule, which would have
provided them notice of her bankruptcy filing.
The case was investigated by the Nampa
Police Department with assistance from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Office of the United States Trustee.
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