[3] In November 1962, as she was preparing to retire the following year, Gee informed the president of the Bank of America that she had been taking funds from customers' accounts; she was arrested on 24 December and charged with embezzlement.
Gee told newspaper reporters that the embezzlement had begun many years prior.
She stated that her father had been an officer in a Chinese bank which had closed, and the deposits of his customers had been lost.
He had covered the losses by moving funds between accounts, and when he had informed her of this in 1930 she had decided to assist him.
She pleaded guilty at the trial and served 16 months in jail at Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island.