New York Daily News

Banker scarfed up $660G from estates: Qns. DA

- Andrew Keshner

HE’S A PIGGY banker.

A greedy private-client bank employee siphoned $660,000 from the estates of two sisters to underwrite his living-large lifestyle, Queens prosecutor­s said Wednesday, adding that the theft nearly wiped out both estates.

Joshua Stephens-Anselm of Queens partied it up at hookah bars, traveled, bought booze and even paid off a pal’s Victoria’s Secret credit card — all on the money he raked out of the estates of Edith and Marjorie Thompson, authoritie­s said.

The 27-year-old banker worked at JPMorgan Chase, where the Thompson sisters had accounts. Edith was 89 when she died in December 2013, and Marjorie died at 85 in November 2014.

From June 2016 to July 2017, Stephens-Anselm allegedly helped himself to the dead women’s money, first by writing himself checks and then through a cell phone app. His expenses included estate money for his rent, cable TV and clothes, according to the charges against him.

He took approximat­ely $590,000 from Marjorie’s account and another $70,000 from Edith’s account, authoritie­s said. JPMorgan Chase has fully reimbursed both accounts.

The Far Rockaway resident surrendere­d to authoritie­s Wednesday and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on larceny charges.

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