Court upholds former Wachovia employee's conviction
The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday upheld convictions against a former Wachovia Bank employee who worked in the bank's exceptions department.
Last August, Yolanda Denise Scott, of Hampton, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found there was sufficient evidence at trial to support Scott's convictions for her role in a scheme to sell bank customers' account information and Social Security numbers.
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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.
