An employee of a multibillion-dollar bank has reportedly been arrested and charged with stealing money from a deceased customer’s account.
Latia Wynn of Wilmington, Delaware, was arrested by police for allegedly withdrawing $44,000 from a deceased customer’s account at WSFS Bank, NBC affiliate Philadelphia10 reports.
When one of the customers died in a car accident, their family reportedly started closing all their accounts, but noticed that a lot of money was missing.
After officers were dispatched to the victim’s family, investigators were led to Wynn, who was later identified as a suspect and is now charged with one felony count of identity theft, one misdemeanor count of wearing a disguise while committing a crime. and one misdemeanor count of theft of $1,500 or more.
The 25-year-old has been formally charged and released on $18,000 bail.
As of March 31, 2024, WSFS Financial Corporation had $20.6 billion in assets and $80.5 billion in assets under management and administration.
In a similar case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey recently said that bank employee Jorge Nova has pleaded guilty to a bank fraud charge and faces up to 30 years in prison for siphoning $105,000 from a deceased customer’s account.
Nova was working at an unnamed commercial bank in Nutley, New Jersey, when he came across a deceased customer’s account where he continued to collect Social Security benefits via direct deposit.
The retiree, who received $2,372 per month in benefits, died on August 29, 2014 – but the Social Security Administration (SSA) was not notified of the person’s death.
As a result, the beneficiary’s account continued to receive funds from the SSA for more than four years.
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