2 Sentenced in Series of Internal Bank Thefts

A former clerk at a Beverly Hills bank and a bookkeeper at a Glendale savings and loan were sentenced to prison terms Monday for stealing money from customers and the financial institutions.

Anthony Roth, 37, a former clerk in the International Banking Department of Bank of the West in Beverly Hills, was sentenced to slightly more than a year in federal prison. Ruth Smack, 47, former bookkeeper at Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan, received six months. Both were indicted in September along with 11 other bank officials implicated in thefts at more than a dozen Southern California banks.

Roth, of Los Angeles, was also fined $75,000 and ordered to pay $46,000 in restitution, Assistant U.S. Atty. Jacqueline Chooljian said. Smack, of Valinda, was ordered to pay $25,000 restitution.