Former Bromley councilwoman accused of stealing bank customers’ money

A former Bromley city council member is accused of stealing money from customers of a Northern Kentucky bank while working there as a manager.

Reagan France was indicted March 12 in federal court in Covington on charges including bank fraud, theft by a bank employee and aggravated identity theft. She’s expected to make her initial court appearance on March 25.

France was hired as a teller in 2015 at the Home Savings Bank branch in Ludlow and was promoted to manager in 2023. Prosecutors say she misused her position to make unauthorized transactions from customer accounts.

France is accused of making more than 100 fraudulent transactions from the customers’ accounts, including by:

Making cash withdrawals and depositing money into her or her family members’ accounts, sometimes forging withdrawal slips to verify those transactionsStopping payment on escrow refund checks owed to customers and issuing new checks in reduced amounts, depositing the difference to another customer as reimbursement for stolen funds.

Court documents list transactions totaling $21,000 stolen from six of the bank’s customers between July 2022 and May 2024. As a bank manager, prosecutors say she accessed customer names and bank account information, and even used identification numbers assigned to other bank tellers to initiate transactions.

She resigned from the bank at the end of 2024.

France’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email and phone call from The Enquirer.

City records show that France was sworn in as a member of Bromley City Council on Christmas Eve of 2020. She resigned from the council in 2023.

Many of the charges France is facing carry a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.