PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former Bank of America employee was sentenced to a year and a day of community confinement Friday after pleading guilty to stealing federal tax refund checks totaling $95,000 and depositing the money in dormant checking account.
Elvy Gomez, 40, of Providence, was also ordered by Chief U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi to serve three years of supervised released upon completion of his confinement, forfeit $34,376 and pay restitution of $95,559. Lisi said she was recommending that Gomez serve out his time at the Coolidge House in Boston.
At the time of his pleading guilty in June, Gomez admitted that he used his position at the bank to access a dormant checking account in which he deposited Treasury checks and then withdrew funds between April and August 2012, using an ATM card made out to the person whose name appeared on the account.