A former New York City police officer, who was previously employed by Wells Fargo’s Rye Brook branch, pleaded guilty Monday to a scheme to defraud bank customers using information gleaned from his employment.
Yeison Rodriguez Acosta, 28, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty Monday to grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony; identity theft in the first degree, a class D felony; and scheme to defraud in the first degree, a class E felony.
Rodriguez Acosta was employed as a Wells Fargo branch operations coordinator in Rye Brook from March 2024 to September 2024. On various dates between May 2024 and June 2025, he allegedly used customers’ banking information to steal $113,735.80 from 26 different accounts…