Another Aide to McNall Is Set to Plead Guilty

Nora J. Rothrock, a former vice president of Bruce McNall’s main company, will plead guilty to single counts of bank fraud and conspiracy in connection with the continuing federal investigation into the King president’s banking practices, according to her lawyer.

Rothrock, 35, was charged Wednesday by prosecutors of engaging in a scheme to defraud the French bank Credit Lyonnais, Bank of America, First Los Angeles Bank and Union Bank of $135.5 million. She is the seventh individual to have been charged in the government’s investigation into McNall’s businesses. McNall will plead guilty to four criminal counts Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Richard Paez.

Rothrock will appear at an arraignment on Monday. She faces a maximum prison term of 35 years and a fine of no less than $1.25 million.

“She was in her 20s when this started and new in the accounting world and was asked to do things--told it was all right and was too young to exercise her best judgment,” said Rothrock’s lawyer, Janet I. Levine. “I want to make it clear it was never her idea.”