Monroe County Woman Admits to Scheme to Access and Steal from Bank Accounts

Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Monroe County woman pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William J. Nealon to participating in a scheme with others to access and unlawfully obtain more than $60,000 from accounts in a New Jersey bank. Pfannenschmidt stated that Christine Fahmy, age 22, of Sciota, Pennsylvania, admitted to committing the offense in 2008 and early 2009. Fahmy admitted that when she was a teller at J.P. Morgan Chase and Company in Hackettstown, New Jersey, she accessed 12 customer account profiles and sold them to two individuals in Monroe County. As part of the scheme, Fahmy's two confederates, Lavan Blair and Jonnell Gantt, used the customer profile information to have false identification documents made and used to access the accounts to obtain the money. Posted in: Internal Fraud