South Carolina Bank Fraud Arrest and Conviction
A bank teller from Sumter, South Carolina was found guilty last week of bank fraud. The teller, Robin Davis, defended the case by telling the jury that the money was placed into her account by God. This is one of the worst defenses to fraud I have ever seen. There should have been a psychological evaluation performed on Ms. Davis. Bank fraud is a specific intent crime and the mens rea required for a conviction cannot be overcome through religion. Bank fraud usually involves so called straw customers opening accounts and transferring non-existent funds from one account to the other. Many times fake identification is used to open the accounts and make deposits. On federal bank fraud indictments, the amount of prison exposure is based on the amount of money fraudulently obtained. Once the million dollar mark is reached, the prison time increases dramatically. Our attorneys defend bank fraud indictments from Miami to Charleston to New York. There is usually a conspiracy count included in the indictment.
Defending bank fraud and conspiracy indictments takes a tremendous amount of time. The criminal defense attorney may have to hire an accountant and a forensic accountant to properly prepare a defense to a federal fraud indictment. Understanding the flow of the monetary transactions is critical to preparing for defending a fraud indictment.
Our South Carolina defense attorney has a tremendous amount of experience defending fraud indictments. We have criminal defense attorneys in charleston and we have criminal defense attorneys in miami and we have criminal defense attorneys in myrtle beach. Our attorneys represent clients all over the United States and abroad.
