Former Bank Manager Convicted of Financial Elder Abuse and Identity Theft
04/09/2015
Former Bank Manager Convicted of Financial Elder Abuse and Identity Theft
Eric Meals, a former Assistant Manager at Bank of America in Antioch, pleaded guilty today to three felonies: financial abuse of an elder, identity theft and unlawful intrusion for accessing customer accounts online from his home and cell phone. Meals opened fraudulent checking accounts in Fresno and Contra Costa Counties, wrote checks on those accounts and made multiple online transfers from victims’ accounts including two attempted transfers to a paypal account for $90,000 each. The case was investigated by the Northern California Computer Crimes Task Force and prosecuted by the State Attorney General’s eCrime Unit.
Meals received a five year four months sentence split between prison and supervised release. He was ordered to pay $43,230.39 in restitution to Bank of America, CitiBank, Union Bank and Wells Fargo.