Donna Lewis Cayton, 47, of Beaufort, North Carolina, was recently charged with embezzling $111,075.99 from Branch Banking & Trust branch in Beaufort, where she had been employed. Cayton's alleged theft occurred between December 2003 and August 2008, according to reports. She is currently out on a $10,000 bond. According to investigators, Cayton targeted the accounts of elderly people and would withdraw relatively small increments of $500 or so. If and when customers identified the discrepancy, she was often the one to correct it by taking from another account. We note that her husband, Christan Bruce Cayton passed away on September 22, 2008.FraudTalk is a blog focused on the review and discussion of recent significant cases of fraud, corruption and employee misconduct - particularly major embezzlement cases in the US. Fraud Talk is published by Chris Marquet, Chairman & CEO of Marquet International Ltd., an international investigations, litigation support and due diligence firm.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
North Carolina Bank Employee Charged With $111K Embezzlement
Donna Lewis Cayton, 47, of Beaufort, North Carolina, was recently charged with embezzling $111,075.99 from Branch Banking & Trust branch in Beaufort, where she had been employed. Cayton's alleged theft occurred between December 2003 and August 2008, according to reports. She is currently out on a $10,000 bond. According to investigators, Cayton targeted the accounts of elderly people and would withdraw relatively small increments of $500 or so. If and when customers identified the discrepancy, she was often the one to correct it by taking from another account. We note that her husband, Christan Bruce Cayton passed away on September 22, 2008.
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