Bank employee to serve 30 days in fraud case

Jennifer Dube

DOVER, N.H. - The indicted former Profile Bank employee who allegedly stole funds given her to pay for college tuition will plead guilty to a single count of theft by unauthorized control of funds and spend 30 days in jail during weekend stints that will begin soon after her sentencing next month.

Jennifer Dube, 35, of 8 Rudman Dr., agreed to the guilty plea in exchange for a 12-month sentence of which 11 months will be suspended. The original 23 indictments handed down by a Strafford County grand jury last August will not be prosecuted.

Dube is alleged to have bilked the financial institution for almost $35,000, relying on the good faith of bank officers whom she allegedly lied to about taking college courses for which she was reimbursed tuition she never paid.

Dube received some 23 checks from the bank as payment for tuition over a five-year period.

Each check totaled more than $1,500, according to the indictment.

Dube will also have to make restitution to the bank of between $44,000 and $48,000, the difference of which is a result of five courses Dube insists she did, in fact, take and should not have to repay.

According to the plea agreement, she and the bank will have to mutually agree to a figure or the Department of Corrections will determine a proper amount.

The March 25 agreement is signed by Dube and her lawyer, Stuart Dedopoulos of Durham, N.H.

Dube is to begin serving her 30-day jail stint at 7 p.m. on May 16. She will be released at 7 p.m. on the following Sunday, then spend 10 consecutive weekends similarly incarcerated at the Strafford County House of Corrections.

Dube worked at Profile Bank for nine years prior to her arrest. The tuition checks were issued between April 2007 and May 2012.