Yeison Rodriguez Acosta used data he had obtained as a Wells Fargo employee to spend customers’ money on luxury car payments and a body-shaping program, among other expenses, prosecutors said.
A New York City police officer who previously worked for Wells Fargo was charged on Thursday with spending $87,000 in bank customers’ money on personal bills that included BMW payments and a gluteus-building program called Booty by Jacks.
The officer, Yeison Rodriguez Acosta, 27, stole and spent the money starting when he worked at a Wells Fargo branch in Westchester County, N.Y., last year through his entry into the Police Academy last fall and his assignment to a precinct in May, prosecutors said.
“The defendant’s brazen conduct, as alleged, does a disservice to his colleagues in law enforcement, who wear the badge honorably and took the same oath to protect and serve,” Susan Cacace, the Westchester district attorney, said in a statement.
Officer Rodriguez Acosta, of Manhattan, was charged in a felony complaint with nine counts of third-degree grand larceny, nine counts of first-degree identity theft and other crimes.
He was arrested on Wednesday, arraigned before Judge Valerie Livingston in Rye City Court Thursday morning and released on the condition that he surrender his passport and call the court every day until the date of his next scheduled appearance in September.
A lawyer representing Officer Rodriguez Acosta, John J. Pappalardo, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Police Department declined to comment on the charges and said that Officer Rodriguez Acosta had been suspended without pay.
