A former supervisor for a Carbon County bank has been charged with embezzling a large amount of money from customers' accounts.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal document was filed Wednesday against Shelly Ann Kocher, 42, of Lehighton, for embezzling $316,324 from customer accounts while she worked as a customer service supervisor at the Jim Thorpe National Bank in Jim Thorpe.Federal authorities said Kocher intends to plead guilty to the charge when she appears for arraignment in federal court.A date for arraignment was not stated in a press release issued by federal prosecutors.According to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, Kocher was employed by the bank from 1999 until May 2013.Kocher allegedly embezzled the funds by making unauthorized withdrawals from customers' CD and savings accounts between April 2010 and April 2013. When the shortages were discovered the bank reimbursed the victims for their losses."There are procedures for the bank to report these types of incidents, and we followed those procedures. Now it's up to the U.S. Attorney's Office and the court to determine the disposition of the case," said the bank's attorney, Paul Adams of Shumaker Williams P.C.The case was investigated by the Scranton office of the FBI and has been assigned to Senior Litigation Counsel Bruce Brandler.Smith said in a press release the maximum penalty Kocher is facing, under the federal statute, is 30 years' imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine.