A bank fraud case that was the focus of a Channel 2 Action News investigation, was an inside job according to criminal warrants filed in Fulton County Magistrate Court.
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Alpharetta police arrested Robert Sterling Murphy and charged him with identity theft fraud and computer theft.
Murphy was a registered broker and investment adviser working at Chase Bank at the time of the alleged fraud back in 2021.
In a May 2023 investigation , Channel 2 Action News talked to Justin and Suzanne Lee. For more than a year, they say they repeatedly had their fraud claims denied by Chase Bank over a wire transfer. They even lost an arbitration hearing.
“After arbitration and he lost, I think my husband was done. He was ready to wash his hands, but I couldn’t let it go because it was so unfair,” Suzanne Lee told Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray in 2023.
The Lees told Gray that someone walked into a Chase Bank branch with a fake ID and a social security number that didn’t match theirs and sent a wire transfer draining their account of $30,000.