LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Clark County employee allegedly used her access to the bank accounts of the dead to pay off a credit card, federal prosecutors said.
Tinatheresa Poto-Nunu faces charges including money laundering, prosecutors said in a news release Wednesday. Poto-Nunu worked in the Clark County Public Administrator’s Office, which administers the property and estates of the deceased who die without a will or family to administer their assets.
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Beginning in 2021, Poto-Nunu allegedly defrauded the estates of at least three defendants with access to a database, which included “personal and financial identity information” of those in the office’s care, documents said.
According to court documents, Poto-Nunu transferred nearly $30,000 from three bank accounts to the credit card…