FDIC staffer stole banks’ data – feds
AN EX-EMPLOYEE of a federal financial regulatory agency has been charged with stealing confidential records as she eyed a private sector job.
Allison Aytes used her position as a senior cross border specialist at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to illegally download private “living wills” at three financial firms in August 2015, Brooklyn federal prosecutors say.
Large financial institutions are under federal mandate to produce so-called living wills, which detail how they would wind down their operations during a crisis without using public money.
Aytes resigned from the FDIC in September 2015. The arrest papers didn’t say if she landed a job at one of the three places she was probing.
She moved to Oklahoma, but law enforcement agents said they found papers and a thumb drive with the purloined information during an October 2015 search of her Brooklyn home.
She was arraigned Friday on theft of government property charges, and released on $5,000 bond.
Aytes, 41, faces up to 10 years if convicted. Her lawyer, Mildred Whalen, said Aytes is “ready to fight these charges.” A CONTRACTOR tied to disgraced former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik got a wrist-slap plea deal Monday for attacking a former FBI informant — a beatdown caught on security video.
Frank DiTommaso, 58, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation, and will do one day of angermanagement training for attacking ex-pal Larry Ray at the Hudson Hotel on Sept. 17, 2015.
DiTommaso was originally charged with felony assault, but prosecutors dropped it to a misdemeanor over lack of proof he was holding a metal object. Questions about medical records and additional defense evidence led the Manhattan DA’s office to drop the assault charge altogether.
Ray’s lawyer insisted the damning video was more than enough to go forward with an assault case against DiTommaso, a construction bigwig. Ray says the assault was retribution for his testimony against DiTommaso and his brother at a 2012 perjury trial. Ray, Kerik and DiTommaso were once close pals, but Ray’s cooperation with investigators helped put Kerik in federal prison in a corruption case, according to Ray’s attorney.