PORTLAND — Jeffrey Burnham, 42, of Arundel, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 1 1/2 years in prison and three years of supervised release for theft by a bank officer. Burnham pleaded guilty on June 10, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney for Maine Thomas E. Delahanty II.
Court records indicate that Burnham, a vice president with TD Bank, stole about $240,000 from the bank between February 2011 and February 2012. He used his corporate credit card to charge personal expenditures at several gentlemen’s clubs in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Florida, then submitted false expense reports and other information. He also gave TD Bank gift cards ”“ designed to be given as gifts to bank clients ”“ to employees of the gentleman’s clubs, according to Delahanty.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI.
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