Tracey Smith, 58, of Clairton, pleaded guilty this week to bank fraud in a scheme that ran across four employers and survived a federal prison sentence in the middle of it. The machine was her resume.
Joshua Shore spent years learning how banks catch thieves. Federal prosecutors say he used that knowledge to steal $440,000 from the two banks that trained him, one ATM deposit at a time.
Federal prosecutors say a Colby, Kansas controller forged 233 checks and moved $753,575 out of her employer's account over nearly nine years. The alleged machine was one person, one signature line, and a room with no second set of eyes.
Joelle Mopiti, 27, pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft and two counts of money laundering after using a bank staff badge to collect cards from AIB customers. The badge did most of the work.
A ₹1.25 crore hole at an SBI branch in Dhanbad opened in 2002. The men accused of digging it lived under other names for two decades. Last weekend, the names caught up.
Federal prosecutors say a Newport Beach borrower used edited PDFs to convince Western Alliance Bank his collateral was clean. The deeds of trust said otherwise. By the time the bank looked underneath, the properties were already in foreclosure.