Some
white collar criminals have good deadpans. Some are so good they go years and
embezzle hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and think they have done
nothing wrong. These are Snakes in Suits (plug for book I’m reading, it’s
awesome). Then there is Crystal Ferriera, who has perhaps the worst deadpan in recorded
criminal history.
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| Truth blurted out |
According
to the Providence, Rhode Island Journal, during an unrelated investigation into
a robbery at Columbus Credit Union where she was a supervisor, Ferreira blurted
out that she had embezzled more than $437,000 from a credit union branch office
in East Providence beginning in May 2012 by taking sums from the vault, ATM and
cash shipments.
Remember,
all defendants have the right to remain silent.
Most don’t have the ability.
Providencejournal.com reports: She revealed the
embezzlement herself, at first with a cover story that two men forced her to do
it by threatening her, her co-workers and their families. She later recanted
that story, according to the authorities.
The back-story is funnier. In
September 2012, a masked woman dropped a fake bomb at a branch office, demanded
money and got away with $11,000. The East
Providence police caught her after her son told an investigator that “Mommy
looked scary” in the mask. I’m not
making this up. Fake bomb bank robbery foiled by 3 year-old.
As the investigators were working
the bank, Ferreira heard the word “robbery” and decided to vomit the
truth. She faces up to 30 years in
prison.
Neither the bank robber nor
Ferreira were criminal masterminds.
Apparently Rhode Island police either look extremely intimidating and
people just vomit up the truth, or Rhode Island criminals are just really bad
at keeping secrets and deadpans. Either
way, CSI this was not.
Full story credit and photo credit: http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20131017-credit-union-employee-admits-embezzling-more-than-437000.ece
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