ATLANTA — A former metro Atlanta bank employee is facing federal charges after prosecutors say she helped steal nearly $1 million from customer bank accounts and funnel the money into cryptocurrency accounts controlled by her co-conspirators.
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A federal grand jury indicted Mercedes Henry, 35, of Stone Mountain, on charges of bank fraud, access device fraud and bribery. She was arrested and appeared in federal court on Sept. 25, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia.
Prosecutors allege Henry worked as a universal banker for Ameris Bank at multiple metro Atlanta locations in 2021. Between September and November of that year, she allegedly used customer account information to link six Ameris Bank accounts to accounts on the cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase.
According to court documents, the scheme resulted in the fraudulent transfer of $931,500 from customer accounts to Coinbase accounts controlled by Henry’s co-conspirators.
Federal authorities allege Henry received more than $1,000 for her role in the scheme.
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“Henry allegedly stole sensitive information to facilitate nearly $1 million of fraudulent transfers from victims’ bank accounts to cryptocurrency accounts controlled by her co-conspirators,” U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said in a statement.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case.
“Ms. Henry and her conspirators allegedly stole consumers’ hard-earned money directly from their bank accounts,” said Marlo Graham, special agent in charge of FBI Atlanta. “Crimes of greed and opportunity will not go unpunished as the FBI and our law enforcement partners use all the tools at our disposal to uncover these illegal acts.”
The case remains under investigation.
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