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...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
...First, the thief had to get by several sets of guards (who log all comings and goings in the vault area) as well as TV monitors over the entrance. Then he presumably had to have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere 20 lbs.-just right for a banker's briefcase. The FBI believed...
Grandfather David gave Lance a $90-a-week job as a teller in the bank, and he helped make ends meet by refereeing high school football games. In 1963 Lance and a group of friends bought control of the bank and he became its president. At the age of 32 he was finally off and running. As one longtime Calhoun resident puts it, "He was the best damn energizer of people ever to shake your hand." To bolster the local economy, Lance gave high-risk loans to people willing to start small businesses making tufted carpets. Today the carpet factories...
...traces of his own incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized shuffling of funds among little-used accounts. Even if caught, a computer thief may not be prosecuted. Fearing embarrassing publicity, some firms merely fire the offender and absorb the losses...
...theory that was all too emphatically affirmed by looters in blacked-out New York City last week-has also been endorsed by a Boston federal judge, no less. When Jane Benduzek, 40, admitted embezzling $84,958 from Boston's South Shore National Bank, where she was a teller, Judge Frank Murray was told that she had felt "entitled" to all that loot. She used much of it to help right such "wrongs'" as the financial setbacks suffered by her brother, who has seven children, and her father, whose pension had evaporated when the milk company he worked...