Miami Bank Employee Guilty of Embezzling Deceased Customer's Money

MIAMI – A Miami man who used his position as an employee at an international financial institution to embezzle over $190,000 from a deceased customer's accounts pled guilty to a federal information yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.

Billy Gedeon, 34, admitted the following: After learning that one of the bank's regular customers had died, Gedeon went into the deceased customer's accounts several times without authorization. In 2023, Gedeon stole over $19ok [sic] from one of the accounts by forging the deceased customer's signature on a bank form (which closed the account), withdrawing all the money, and depositing it into Gedeon's personal account at another bank.