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CT: Bank Employee Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Stealing More Than $100K from Customer Accounts

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Dissent

The bank was not identified in court documents. Do consumers want to know what bank so they can evaluate whether a bank has sufficient infosecurity checks in place to protect their money and accounts? Withholding the names of victim banks or businesses protects those entities, but does not serve consumers well.

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALEXANDER ALVAREZ, 33, of East Lyme, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for stealing more $100,000 from customers of the bank where he was employed.

According to court documents and statements made in court, from January 2012 to February 2013, ALVAREZ was employed as a Financial Service Representative for a bank in Newington.  While employed at the bank, ALVAREZ identified accounts that had little banking activity.  He then caused the mailing address for the accounts he targeted to be changed from the owner’s address to a fraudulent address so that transactions in the accounts would not be immediately discovered by the account owner.  ALVAREZ then created fraudulent transfer slips causing the funds to be transferred to another account that he believed was dormant, or to an account that he directly controlled, or to be issued in a bank check.  Once the funds were transferred from the owner’s account, ALVAREZ withdrew the funds from the bank in cash or via an ATM card, or transferred them to his personal banking account.

ALVAREZ stole $100,806.85 from one bank customer and $11,137.01 from a second bank customer.  He was ordered to pay full restitution, plus interest, to the bank.

On April 21, 2015, ALVAREZ pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.

This matter was investigated by the Connecticut Financial Crimes Task Force, the Stratford Police Department and the Greenwich Police Department.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Miller.

SOURCE: U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut

Category: Financial SectorInsider

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4 thoughts on “CT: Bank Employee Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Stealing More Than $100K from Customer Accounts”

  1. Billy Rubin says:
    October 6, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Not revealing the financial institution involved is unconscionable. Wish we had a truly free press these days. Would a FOIA request reveal it? Or would that just cause black Escalades driven by suits with sunglasses to storm your driveway?

    1. Dissent says:
      October 6, 2015 at 11:38 pm

      I suspect FOIA would result in a response citing some exemption. The govt views the entities as victims, so doesn’t name them.

    2. Cookie Jones says:
      October 10, 2015 at 11:53 am

      TD Bank in Newington. (Who needs FOIA when we’ve got google)

      1. Dissent says:
        October 10, 2015 at 1:33 pm

        That’s not the only bank in Newington.

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