While you were busy doing Sudoku at your temp job, industrious 19-year-old computer whiz Adeniyi Adeyemi was using his three month temp job to launch a $1.1 million fraud scheme, according to a 149-count indictment. During his stint in the IT department at Bank of New York Mellon in November 2001, Adeyemi allegedly stole personal identifying information from dozens of employees, using the information from more than 30 bank and brokerage accounts in their names. Over the next eight years he used the stolen identities to set up more than 30 fraudulent bank and brokerage accounts, prosecutors say.
"Adeyemi then stole money from the bank accounts of charities and non-profit organizations and funneled it into the dummy accounts, later withdrawing the stolen funds or transferring them to a second layer of dummy accounts," Manhattan DA Robert M. Morgenthau said yesterday. Charities he allegedly defrauded include Goodwill Industries, the Jacksonville Humane Society, American Friends of Birdlife International, and, coolest of all, the Space Generation Advisory Council.
Prosecutors also accuse Adeyemi of stealing from the employees whose information he took, and buying $100,000 in money orders from the Postal Service. Other money reportedly went to buy a Lexus, pay the rent on his Brooklyn apartment, and throw swank parties. The Secret Service began surveillance on Adeyemi after tracing suspicious Internet activity his apartment; investigators later found dozens of bank employees’ credit reports on his computer. He pleaded not-guilty to (deep breath) grand larceny, identity theft, money laundering, scheme to defraud, computer tampering and unlawful possession of personal identification information.





The Secret Service? I thought they just protected VIP's and bust counterfeit schemes.
Adeyemi obviously never watched Office Space.
I guess they'll send him to 'pound in the ass prison' now.
Please don't exaggerate. Prison rapes aren't as commonplace as shown on TV and movies. Maybe like 2%. He will get free room and board as all other prisoners.
This is what happens when you get too greedy. I'm sure he knew eventually the police will catch on and get to him.
dick
But other than that, he's a really nice guy.
what's he look like
While you were busy doing Sudoku at your temp job...
How did you know?!
sudoku is for dummies that's why they have temp jobs.
Yeah, everybody with real jobs just surf Gothamist at work instead.
So it took the Feds eight years to get wise to him. Your tax dollars at work, folks.
Too bad he's not a resonably attractive girl with big hooters, then the punishment would only be a slap on the wrist and he'd have to change careers.
And then woman want equal rights?
so sad, yet so true...
hahaha!
If convicted he'll face a much more severe sentence than she did, definitely. Not because he's male, but because he committed many more crimes and continued doing so over a long period of time.
Um... what constitutes suspicious Internet activity? Traced to his apartment? wtf?
who in their right mind would use their home internet for illegal activities, beside bittorrent...? free wifi is EVERYWHERE and it only takes a minute to brute force your neighbors WEP or WPA protection and then spoof your mac…
But did he have overdraft protection?