Employee replaced cash with ‘Monopoly money’ in credit union safe robbery

On October 30, 2024By Karl

A former employee of Park Side Credit Union in Whitefish, Montana, admitted to embezzling $390,000 from the company’s coffers by exchanging funny money for real money.

Edward Arthur Nurse, 35, of Missoula, pleaded guilty to an indictment accusing him of stealing from the credit union from July 2023 to June 2024, the Justice Department said.

U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said Nurse, whose main job was to manage and balance the money in the safe, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison, a $1 million fine and five years of supervised release.

In court documents, the government said that in June 2024, another Park Side employee discovered that $340,000 in the credit union’s safe had been replaced with counterfeit funds. Similar ones were later revealed to come from a company that provided counterfeit money in support of film and entertainment productions.