David Guerra, president and CEO of IBC-McAllen, declined to specifically talk about Constante's case or whether the customer whose account was allegedly breached would be able to recover his money."ĬLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.Alright not great Pay is very low compared to other banks. Phone calls to his Mission home were not returned Monday. But authorities say they found scraps of a money strip used to bind the cash that they later linked to the March 19 withdrawal.Ī lawyer has not yet filed with the court to represent the bank employee. and meant as a gift to his father, according to court documents filed in his case. The Secret Service investigates financial crimes in addition to providing presidential protection.Ĭonstante told agents that bank bags found in his home were purchased at H.E.B.
He maintains the customer requested he withdraw the money and that he hand-delivered it to a man he believed to be the account holder waiting in the bank office, said Secret Service agent Cameron Wolfley in an affidavit filed in the bank employee's case. Marshals pending a detention hearing set for Wednesday. He is accused of redeeming the slip on March 19 for cash - remnants of which federal authorities say they found during a search of his home a week later.Ĭonstante, a new account executive at the International Bank of Commerce's downtown McAllen branch, was arrested Friday and has remained in the custody of U.S. Secret Service alleges Erik Alfredo Constante, of Mission, took $100,000 by forging the account holder's signature on a withdrawal slip. McALLEN - A 21-year-old bank employee is set to appear before a judge Wednesday on charges he stole money from a customer's account. "Bank employee arrested for stealing from customer
There are civil and criminal investigations going on as I write this, to try to find out what the bank, or its employees, did with my money.īeing ripped off, as an 82 year old woman on a fixed income, fairly recently widowed, is a nightmare, and something I hope no one else goes through. He personally signed for the certified letter. Nixon, the CEO of all IBC banks, making a demand for return of my money. The bank has "stonewalled" the criminal investigation officers, and I had my son deliver a letter to Dennis E.
Well, I went in as normal on February 12, and when they counted it, fifteen thousand, four hundred was missing. Normally, when they would bring me the box, (often they would have opened it as I recall), I would have them count the money, and write down the amount. The employees would take my safe deposit box key, and have the bank "guard" key, and go into the safe deposit vault, where there were no surveillance cameras, and thus had the potential access to go in and take cash out of the box. My husband died Nov, 9,2007, and after that, things changed. When my husband was alive, the bank employees would let both of us go into the safe deposit box vault with our key, and the employee would use their guard key, and we would access the vault. I had a safe deposit box, with my husband at the IBC bank (International Bank of Commerce) in Weslaco Texas, although, my statements would come from the McAllen branch.
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