Conspiracy To Commit Bank Fraud: Former Bank Employee Sentenced

SILVER SPRING, MD — A woman from Silver Spring was sentenced to 21 months in prison for her role in a conspiracy that compromised personal information from nine Capital One bank customers' accounts and sought $253,000 in withdrawals and transfers from those accounts.

Danielle Bartley, 26, was a Capital One employee when she and another employee posed as the account holders, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

One $50,000 wire transfer went through using personal information a co-conspirator bought on the dark web, but the other attempted withdrawals and transfers were stopped, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

Bartley, who was a branch associate, pleaded guilty in October 2021 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and was ordered to pay $53,750 in restitution.