As federal regulators tried to untangle the financial mess at a crooked Bridgeport bank eight years ago, the bank’s top loan officer revealed she had been helping the bank’s CEO falsify loan records to hide millions of dollars that were looted from the bank.

The following day, Alicia Mandujano was fired as the senior loan officer for Washington Federal Bank for Savings, a tiny, family-operated bank with ties to the Daley family and its 11th Ward Regular Democratic Organization.

Mandujano — one of 16 people people who had been indicted on criminal charges following the bank’s collapse in December 2017 — was sentenced Monday to two years supervised release, including 12 months of home detention. She is the fifth former bank employee ordered to help repay $27,899,991 to the Federal Deposit

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