Six clean years, one firing - and younger coworkers she says walked away untouched
A 60-year-old former U.S. Bank employee says she was singled out and fired over a fraudulent check, while younger coworkers who did the same thing kept their jobs.
Judith Knipp filed an age discrimination lawsuit against U.S. Bank National Association in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on May 14, 2026. The case rests on a single claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the federal law protecting workers 40 and older.
Knipp joined U.S. Bank in July 2018 as a Client Relationship Consultant 3 at the Potter Village branch in Fremont, Ohio. According to the complaint, she worked there for six years without a single discipline or performance issue.
That run ended in January 2024. Her manager, Trisha Pollzzie, told her she had allegedly cashed a fraudulent $4,500 check the previous August, the filing says. Knipp says she was not given any documentation. According to the complaint, Pollzzie initially told her not to worry, noting that other employees had made similar errors on the same customer account - an account the bank ultimately charged off for $16,000.
The complaint alleges that a string of fraudulent $4,500 checks had been hitting branches across Knipp's district, all under District Manager Chrissy Kolakowski. The pattern, according to the filing, started at the Port Clinton branch, where a Client Relationship Consultant described as approximately 30...
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