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.
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…