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Bank Employee Steals Cash, Then Posts Pics of It On Facebook and Instagram (cnn.com) 78

Posted by EditorDavid from the status-updates dept.
"If you're systematically stealing money from a bank vault, it may not be a good idea to post the evidence on your social media pages," reports CNN: A bank employee in Charlotte, North Carolina, allegedly stole $88,000 from the bank's vault, according to a release from the United States Attorney's Office Western District of North Carolina. And he wasn't bashful about advertising to his social media followers the life of luxury he was funding.... Henderson's numerous Facebook and Instagram photos depict him posing with stacks of cash, and the U.S. Attorney's Office says he used the money to make a $20,000 down payment on a new Mercedes-Benz....

According to details from the indictment contained in the release, Henderson allegedly took bank customers' cash deposits out of the bank vault for months. Many of those times, he deposited money into an ATM near the bank where he worked, according to the release. "I make it look easy but this shyt really a PROCESS," he wrote in one Facebook post, part of a string in which he talked about building his "brand." That post, showed him him holding a stack of money and smoking a cigarette.
Henderson is now facing up to 30 years in prison.

Which bank? According to the Charlotte Observer, it was Wells Fargo.
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Bank Employee Steals Cash, Then Posts Pics of It On Facebook and Instagram

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  • That's a hell of a way to get free room and board

  • Superman 3 (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I'm picturing the scene where Robert Vaughn sees Richard Pryor's new car arriving in the parking lot :)
  • Brand? What could he possibly need a brand for himself for for robbing banks? Is he worried the RLSH who go around saving the world by doing good deeds in their underwear and cosplay suits need a villain? Makes sense, he looks just like that Phoenix Jones super-villain from Seattle that got in trouble beating up on homeless people while pretending to be a good guy to me.

  • He stole too little (Score:5, Funny)

    by DNS-and-BIND ( 461968 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:09PM (#59519832) Homepage
    His crime wasn't stealing too much, it was stealing too little. If he'd have stolen tens of millions, he'd be a bank executive. $88,000? Chump change. It's a class thing, you wouldn't understand.

    • Wanna bet the money in that vault was stolen money in the first place?
      You just gotta call it differently. Like "interest" or "profit" or "license fees" or some other term that means "You work hard so you can pay me, for not working and giving you nothing in return.".

      • If you don't want to pay interest, stop spending other people's money.

        • But he also mentioned profit.

          I'm a regular working guy with a computer science degree and a pretty good job. Here's what's weird: in the last couple years, I've made more on my 401k than from my (full-time) job. Doesn't that seem kind of out-of-whack? It means (if this number doesn't evaporate before I am able to spend it) I have effectively somebody out there who has to work and give me all the money. NOT because of any brilliant investment decisions either. I could see the economy was rigged to ben

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by darronb ( 217897 )

            Well, no... it sounds normal. You said you've been maxing out your 401k for 20 years into index funds. That's a lot, especially for a CS guy with a "pretty good job".

            Incidentally, if you can pull out 3% of that a year and live on it, then congrats you're financially independent and you don't really have to work anymore unless you want to.

            Personally, although my boss is a workaholic asshole I doubt I'll ever stop working... but then it is my company so...

            • Well, it certainly is normal in today's world, and it altered my behavior just as it was intended to do. But that's what the GP meant by "The secret is to BE the bank!" It's the system we live in.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by ebvwfbw ( 864834 )

      Steal tens of millions... and the second part is - skip the country.
      Madhoff didn't do that and he ended up in jail.

  • just wow! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by bloodhawk ( 813939 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:12PM (#59519838)
    Seriously how does someone so incredibly brain dead moronic get to be working in a bank in the first place. the depths of human stupidity always amazes me, just when you think you have bottomed out someone like this retard comes along.

    • Re:just wow! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by rtb61 ( 674572 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:22PM (#59519858) Homepage

      I blame the bank. Seriously they did not recognise how dumb this individual was, how hicksville is that bank to put someone so dumb in charge of money in a bank vault. Surely there must have been signs of this fellows well stupidity.

      The levels of dumb, this fellow was lucky the police got to him first, I mean advertise that you have thousands of stolen cash in your home, the guy is lucky to be alive. I am kind of surprised he did not get mugged before the police got to the fool.

      The lawyers will have a responsible defence, how could the bank put a fool like this in charge of money and not expect him to do something stupid, the evidence of that is self evident.

      • Re:just wow! (Score:5, Insightful)

        by ShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:09AM (#59520200)

        I blame the bank. Seriously they did not recognise how dumb this individual was

        They were also dumb enough to just stack $80,000 in the vault where it was accessible to employees.

        Any large cash deposits should have been double-checked by at least two employees, placed in a lockbox, and then the lockbox goes in the vault.

        No single employee should ever have access to large amounts of cash.

        The thefts went on for months, and the bank didn't even notice the discrepancy until the photos showed up on Instagram.

        Another black mark for Wells Fargo.

        • Another black mark for Wells Fargo.

          I see what you did there.

        • Not trying to exonerate Wells Fargo here, but remember that the perp boasted on Facebook about how clever he had to be to pull off his heists. "It's a process" etc. Wells Fargo likely had industry-standard cash handling procedures in place. The not-as-stupid-as-you-think perp likely sorted out how to subvert those procedures. As is so often the case, people that can be clever in one regard are often brain-dead in another. He couldn't resist bragging about his apparent genius.

          Admittedly, the cash shorta

          • The discrepancies may well have been noted, but attributed to improper inventory or client error (for, say, night drops). Presumably some amount of error is expected and tolerated. Since he only made off with $88k after months and months of what was likely tens or hundreds of millions in cash deposits, he was probably exploiting the limits of that tolerance.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by rjune ( 123157 )

            You wrote: "As is so often the case, people that can be clever in one regard are often brain-dead in another." It can be summarized as Clever, not Smart. Guys like this are not only brain dead in other areas, they have no concept of consequences. You might be able to get away with stealing a few thousand dollars, ONCE, and keeping your mouth shut. This guy kept going and had to brag about it on social media. Things like this will continue to happen, so this guy is not even useful as a bad example.

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by aix tom ( 902140 )

          Probably some stupid reason like "If I hire two persons, their wage will come out of my budget, but if the one person really steals something it will come out of another persons budget"

        • They were also dumb enough to just stack $80,000 in the vault where it was accessible to employees.

          No they weren't. RTFS.

      • He is not a random guy posting with a bundle of cash; he works in a bank. So it's normal for him to handle large loads of cash - how taking a selfie at your workplace with normal workplace things (cash here) a crime? or suggest he is a thief? May be he violated some work place policies of ot taking selfies and publishing.

        • Re: just wow! (Score:4, Funny)

          by drewsup ( 990717 ) on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:31AM (#59520286)

          You're obviously confused about the whole " taking work home with you" thing...

      • It can be hard to spot this sort of behavior beforehand in an employee. I used to own a liquor store, and one of my best employees, who was smart, capable, and good at catching theft decided one day to take $5,000 out of the daily deposits... right in front of the security camera, when he knew I would be double counting it minutes later. There was zero possibility he would get away with it, and he'd have to be a moron to come up with such a stupid plan. He lost his job for really no good reason, and he's

    • Must be easy to steal and fake the records (Score:4, Insightful)

      by raymorris ( 2726007 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:30PM (#59519874) Journal

      This guy obviously isn't too bright, posting this stuff on multiple social media accounts multiple times. Yet that's apparently how he got caught.

      The story says Henderson "destroyed certain documents and that he made, or caused others to make, false entries in the bank's books and records to cover up the theft."

      Apparently the bank's systems really suck, if this moron was able to get away with it, repeatedly, until he publicly ratted himself out. It's a little bit tempting to look into this further. :)

      A note to the DTCC Hiring manager - I'm kidding!

      (DTCC is a local company I may end up working for. They handled $1.854 QUADRILLION in transactions last year).

      • someone just posted on social media, their company's financial details.

        • Every company which has stockholders, which is the vast majority of large companies, posts a 20-50 page report every year. It gives far more detail than just gross revenue. It gives all the details that a sophisticated owner of the company would want to know, or a potential owner would wantt before buying in. Here is DTCC's annual report:

          http://www.dtcc.com/annuals/20... [dtcc.com]

          You can look it over and decide if you want to be an owner (stockholder) of DTCC. If you think DTCC will continue to be profitable, you m

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        • I figured if I worked for them at some point it could add an interesting line to my resume:

          Responsible for securiing of $1.8 quadrillion of annual transactions :D

          It's kinda like at the interview for my current job my future boss asked "We have several thousand users. What is the largest network you've worked on?" Well, there was Rackspace, AT&T ...

          DTCC's volume totally changes the security equation. You look at the probability of a particular attack X the damage it would do. At DTCC is not unreasonabl

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Mashiki ( 184564 )

      Police catch more criminals and have higher clearance today thanks to social media. Around here in Ontario they've jumped from 20 out of 100 cases for say assault, robbery, etc., to 25-30. 20:100 is considered normal, in some cities in the US like Detroit, Atlanta, NYC(prior to Gulliani's cleanup) it was a low as 4:100 cases.

    • Fake news?
    • There's no doubt that social media has changed the way people communicate. This by itself isn't unique. In the great period of illiteracy, the greatest works of the then meagre amounts of literature were spoken rather than printed. Now it seems a reverse process has taken place. In the past, it wasn't unusual for criminals to brag about their exploits to their drinking buddies or some stranger in a pub. Who knows, maybe storytelling is simply hardwired into our brains as the "social" ape that lives in overs

    • Seriously how does someone so incredibly brain dead moronic get to be working in a bank in the first place.

      Do you really want an answer to that?

    • No one ever went broke betting on the stupidity of people.
      -P.T Barnum

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by cusco ( 717999 )

        Barnum is credited with "There's a sucker born every minute" (although he was actually quoting from one of Mark Twain's friends.)

        H.L Menckan wrote, “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Your quote is a later paraphrase of that.

        I know far too much trivia . . .

    • Affirmative Action springs to mind.

      Is that still a thing ?
  • Why else was this guy able to walk out with 80,000 dollars. The banks don't care outside of keeping up appearances. Everything is digital anyway and the fed literally makes it's cash. Bitcoin and the fed has shown us just how far abstracted away from value money can get.

    • Why else was this guy able to walk out with 80,000 dollars

      they must have really bad security procedures .And cash is the most anonymous thing :)

      • And why would a bank have really bad security practices around their cash? Because the cash itself isn;t actually that important. We dont have nearly enough actually bills to cover the credit currently in circulation....

  • Bitcoin! (Score:3)

    by Way Smarter Than You ( 6157664 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:25PM (#59519864)
    See? This is why we need bitcoin! With bitcoin he would've been anonymous yet uh traceable and uhm... oh never mind! I can't make myself do this one without lmao! Guy is just a wanna be thug idiot. Toss him in the ocean. Prison is a waste of resources. Raise the average planetary IQ.

  • Was the part of Arlando Henderson played by Richard Pryor [imdb.com]?

  • Did you ever get the impression that somebody was going to jail for white collar crime on purpose so that they aren't investigated for other crimes?

  • It means that somehow, somewhere, natural selection is still allowed to do its job sometimes.

    Unless the thief sues for discrimination, and obviously gets double the money he stole awarded in damages, because the judge fears the SJW protests outside.

    • Natural selection doesn't have a purpose, it's just something that happens. While a substantial prison sentence is likely to reduce his reproductive options in the future, it's entirely possible that his flamboyant dishonesty has actually been a successful reproductive strategy in his life to date. It's also entirely possible that it hasn't. We don't have the data to know.

  • He's pretty much doomed. Although how long before Robert Shapiro takes on the case pro bono?

  • People who grew up not having something feel the need to flaunt it. Youâ(TM)ll see rappers rent sports cars, and borrow money just to give the illusion that they are well off. People with lots of money however donâ(TM)t take selfies with their cash, they donâ(TM)t even talk about it, because they donâ(TM)t want the attention. People with sports cars tend to take care of their vehicles, they arenâ(TM)t the ones racing at red lights and playing loud music

  • Was at Disney World when he was conceived.

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  • An old teacher if mine opined: only stupid criminals get caught. TFA is a great example. It's hard to imagine how the guy could be any dumber.

    Seeing as my teacher was a clever guy, I always wondered if he had a "hobby" that we didn't know about. He did spend a lot of time in Vegas...

  • I reckon 10-15 with good behaviour. He's not a danger, he's just a fricking moron who shouldn't be allowed near large sums of cash!

    When most of us take a "sick day" off work and we're not sick then we don't post on social media that day in case we get caught, let alone stealing $100k off your employer and boasting about it.

  • 5 years with an extra 2 for ultimate stupidity? OK. But 30?
    But then again, this is the US, where you get 25 years in prison for stealing a pizza [nytimes.com].

    How you guys can think that the US is the greatest nation ever is totally beyond me. You might be a tad delusional....no offence. Just sayin from across the pond.

    • Harsh? I would have cut off his hands then used the rest of him as a organ donor. Doesn't deserve to live.
  • And he wasn't bashful about advertising to his social media followers How to be totally stupid !!
  • I am glad that so many criminals are as smart as a 2x4. Make catching them so much easier. We wouldn't want smart criminals, the police wouldn't have a snow balls chance in hell of catching them!.
  • Perhaps he should be given a medal instead. Wells Fargo has already screwed over a huge number of people.

  • not guilty because of mental incompetence.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by ebvwfbw ( 864834 )

      not guilty because of mental incompetence.

      And... how is this different than the other nitwits waiting for trial as well?

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