An elderly Marion County man has been sentenced on five counts of bank fraud.
The U.S. attorney's office says 75-year-old Alfred Cross of Kinmundy received a six-and-a-half year sentence. Each of the bank fraud counts carried a sentence of up to thirty years in prison. In addition to the prison term, Cross is ordered to pay restitution of over 111-thousand dollars to two of the banks he defrauded.
Cross admitted he opened checking accounts and defrauded banks of more than 500-thousand dollars in Carbondale, Mt. Vernon, Benton, Nashville, Greenville and two in Effingham.
Cross conducted this fraud scheme from 2011 through 2015.
