12/08/2024

Three Former Bank Tellers Indicted in Connection with Stealing from Banks

MIddlesex County District Attorney's Office

SOMERVILLE – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced that three former bank employees, Yeimaly Moscat, 23, of Boston, Yojairis Suazo, 21, of Boston and Angelica Morales, 31, of Mattapan, have been charged after allegedly stealing money from customers’ accounts by processing unauthorized withdrawals at three different Citizens Bank branches. 

The investigation indicates that, between September and November of 2022, Yeimaly Moscat was employed as a bank teller at a Citizens Bank branch in Somerville.  During that period it is alleged that Moscat processed a series of 12 unauthorized withdrawals, totaling $40,900 from victims’ bank accounts.  During that same time, Yojairis Suazo was employed as a teller at a Citizens Bank in Dorchester. Suazo allegedly processed a series of 15 unauthorized withdrawals totaling $30,850 from victims’ bank accounts.

The stolen funds in question, in both circumstances, were paid out in counter transactions to suspected associates of Moscat and Suazo. Moscat and Suazo facilitated the transactions by entering the recipients as “Known Customers,” even though the individuals at the counter were not the account holders.

A year later, between November and December 2023, Angelica Morales was employed as a teller at a Citizens Bank branch in Milton when she was allegedly recruited to carry out the same scheme.  During this time, Morales allegedly processed a series of five unauthorized withdrawals from victims’ bank accounts, totaling $20,000. The stolen funds were also paid in counter transactions to apparent co-conspirators.