Woman Sues Chase For Telling Hubby About Secret Cash

A Chase bank employee is being blamed for dropping the dime about a Long Island dentist's $800,000 individual account to her husband. The NY Post reports that while Nazita Aminpour and David Shamash "have a joint account at a Chase branch in Kew Gardens, Queens," Aminpour also had the secret account. Well, secret until a bank employee cold-called Shamash, "telling him he should take his small fortune out of the low-interest account and make other investments with Chase." Aminipour's suit says that once Shamash heard about the money, he "began harassing [Aminpour], asking for money from the funds that he can invest in the stock market and to cover a margin call he had on his stock account." The suit adds that Shamash "alienat[ed]" Aminipour until she gave him $155,000 "to save her marriage and restore order in the marital home." Aminipour says Chase violated non-disclosure laws and wants the bank to pay her the $155K plus legal fees.

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By Jen Chung in News on April 27, 2009 9:20 AM

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perli

i hope that Chase bank will be made to pay, the GREEDIEST bank ever just tries to get greedier and greedier.

mrs. aminpour, please fight on for all of us. good job.

Smitty025

I'm surprised she is only suing for $155k and not $155m.

lemon

While making up numbers, why not sue for $155b or $155t or $155q... I can go all day.

StinaLES

Regardless of what is financially expected of a wife, it it is against policy to provide account information to non-account holders! If her hub wasnt on the acct, he's not entitled to her account info. Bar none.

MrCow

what the hell, chase bank?! i'd be pissed if they told my husband about my secret account... then again i'd get a secret account at a separate bank if i wanted it to be secure.

books

I dont care about this ladys 800K but I do want to say chase is the worst bank in the world.

bittinho

I don't see how this woman has a case. If the money is marital property then its 50% the husband's anyway, no harm, no foul. If it is not marital property and then she gave it away because she felt "pressured" by her husband (I read something like that in the Post today), thats her problem as well. I dont think she is going to win $155k.

Trilby16

A marraige is an economic entity with assets held in common. The only funds a spouse holds individually are bequests that are made to them only. Any money earned during the marraige, even if squirriled away, is NOT separately owned, legally, so I don't think that Chase would be liable for "breaching" anything. Of course a person can always try to sue.

If you want to hide money from your spouse, it is just common sense to do it in a separate bank, as I do.

munk

And what if the bank was Chase and decides to call the home and the husband picks up anyway?

Trilby16

Yeah, what if? A call from a bank would not neccesarily arouse suspicion, unless the person calling said "We are calling about that nestegg your sneaky wife has accumulated..."

hotstepper

what a sneaky bitch. want a secret account? call the Swiss.

chase should counter-sue her ass!

munk

I don't see anything wrong with this. What if the husband was abusive and she needed to get away? A secret bank account is one of the ways women protect themselves from their husbands.

Quidnam

Yeah, but the truly crazy thing is to open up your secret stash at the same bank. I wouldn't want to leave that kind of secret riding on the mindfulness or adherence to best practices by customer service personnel at Chase or any other bank.

Guest

And just how do husbands protect themselves from greedy wives? Not like this. The courts would beat a husband down for trying to keep money from his wife.

hotstepper

you can play the "what if game" all you like, and it seems that you like it a lot!

i, for one, like to stick to actualities and leave the abusive husband drama for the lifetime channel.