A Bangor woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor to conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Nichole Kelley, 46, conspired with others in 2024 to fraudulently obtain money by entering banks, impersonating legitimate bank account holders and using fictitious ID cards to gain access to bank accounts and withdraw funds, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine. The banks were not named.
Kelley faces up to 30 years in prison, a maximum fine of $1 million and up to five years of supervised release. She will be sentenced after the completion of a pre-sentence investigative report by the U.S. Probation Office. A federal judge will determine the sentence.
The FBI investigated the case with assistance from the Bangor Police Department, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ enforcement services division.
In a search of her home, investigators seized two fictitious driver’s licenses in other people’s names but with Kelley’s image on them. Kelley also agreed with co-conspirators to travel to banks outside of Maine to impersonate customers and withdraw funds from their accounts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
