Jennifer Fleener spent nine years learning how her employer paid claims. Then she spent five more years turning that knowledge into $1.2 million, a network of fake policyholders in the Philippines, and eight federal sentences handed down this summer in the Southern District of Indiana.
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.
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 Nairobi branch manager, her deputy, and a junior colleague stand accused of bleeding a customer's pound-sterling account at Diamond Trust Bank for almost a decade. The fraud, prosecutors allege, was not a hack. It was the bank doing what the bank does, with the signatures faked from the inside.
Cheungkin Lam was the polite young man behind the counter at a Fresh Meadows TD Bank. Federal prosecutors say he was also the door the thieves walked through.
Terry Chen got six years for a $3.5 million pandemic unemployment fraud. The piece nobody talks about is the contractor who sat at a state laptop and turned the locks off from the inside.