Ex-Bank Employee Charged with Fraud, ID Theft

In a case of insider fraud, former Regions Bank employee was indicted in Birmingham, AL this week. A federal grand jury heard an 11-county indictment against Wash Taylor Coleman Jr., a 33-year-old Birmingham resident. He is charged with mail fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. "People should be able to trust employees of the banks where they deposit their hard-earned money," says U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance about the indictment. "When a bank employee uses his special access to steal from those customers, the employee must be required to answer for his conduct. We will prosecute these cases to make that happen." Coleman is also charged with making unauthorized cash withdrawals from accounts of three Regions customers, including the one in whose name he had obtained the Capital One credit card from October 2008 to September 2009. Posted in: Account Takeover Identity Theft