Real Life Robin Hood?

 

Patricia Keezer, 53, said the embezzling began in 2000, when she would give needy people $2,000 at a time for car repairs, mortgage payments and taxes. Keezer commonly reversed bounced-check charges and other fees when she was a manager of Citizens Bank, formerly known as Republic Bank, in Manchester, 70 miles southwest of Detroit.

"I would take other people´s problems and make them my problems," Keezer told the judge. "I do have a problem with giving things away."

She repeatedly expressed remorse and said she would accept the death penalty for the crime if it were a possibility and she didn´t have a family.

"We don´t know where the money is. ... It just doesn´t add up," Shaw said.

But defense lawyer Raymond Cassar noted there´s no trail of luxuries. He asked the judge to sentence Keezer to home confinement.

"She didn´t use it on herself. She didn´t bury it in the ground. She didn´t give it to her husband," he said of the missing money. "She gave it away. It´s believable."