ALBANY – Misusing the names of two federal agencies has cost a Wynantskill woman $5,000.

Federal prosecutors said Kristina Gross, 37, was sentenced Thursday to pay the fine for misuse of  the names of the Department of the Treasury and the IRS, a misdemeanor.

Gross admitted in January that she worked for a Rensselaer County construction services company  whose Kinderhook Bank account had been levied by the IRS on Feb. 14, 2017. The following Feb. 23 she twice emailed the bank what she claimed was an IRS release of levy form, in an unsuccessful attempt to get the bank to provide her company with access to funds the bank had frozen as a result of receiving the IRS levy, officials said.

The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and William A. Kalb, special agent in charge in the Office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.