Rodriguez
WHITE PLAINS – A Mount Kisco woman, who was a branch manager at the M&T Bank in Ossining, was sentenced on Wednesday to 2 1/3 to seven years in state prison for stealing $1.4 million from depositors.
Maria Rodriguez, 47, pled guilty in February to two counts of grand larceny and one count of criminal tax fraud, all felonies.
She was charged with systematically stealing from two bank customers beginning in June 2008. In one case, she stole money from the victim by writing unauthorized checks to cash and making unauthorized ATM withdrawals with the total theft of over $1.1 million. The second victim was a 92-year-old former Ossining village police officer, from whom she stole over $192,000 by making unauthorized withdrawals from his account.
The thefts came to light when several of Rodriguez’s employees at the bank called M&T Bank’s whistleblower hotline to report suspicious activity. The bank initiated an investigation and turned it over to Ossining Police and the Westchester District Attorney’s Office.
