WHITE PLAINS – A former bank manager faces up to 25 years in state prison when sentenced in May after pleading guilty to felony charges of grand larceny and criminal tax fraud.
Maria Rodriguez, 46, of Mount Kisco, was the branch manager of the M&T Bank branch in Ossining in June 2008 when she began systematically stealing from two of the bank’s customers.
Rodriguez knew one of the victim’s since the mid-1990s and stole the person’s money by writing unauthorized checks to cash, making unauthorized cash withdrawals, and requesting an ATM card and making unauthorized ATM withdraws. She stole over $1.1 million from that victim.
The second victim is a 92-year-old former Ossining police officer, who would only deal with Rodriguez at the bank. He thought he was withdrawing only the interest from his bank account, when in fact she was making unauthorized withdrawals of over $256,600.
The thefts came to light when several of Rodriguez’s subordinates at the bank called its whistleblower hotline to report suspicious activities. M&T Bank officials then conducted an interview investigation and referred the matter to the police, who in turn, contacted the district attorney’s office.
Bail was continued at $200,000.
