Wells Fargo Accidentally Gave This Guy $70,000 And Now He's Facing Jail Time

[FarCenter]

Police have arrested a 22-year-old Trevose, Pa. man and charged him with stealing more than $69,000 from his own bank account.

When Wells Fargo customer Joseph Bucci found a mysterious deposit for $69,300, he went on a shopping spree rather than reporting the error to the bank, according to Bensalem Police.

With the cash, Bucci allegedly racked up clothes, furniture, a new car and airline tickets on the bank's dime before cops finally caught up with him. At the time, there was about $2,000 left in his account.

Even though the deposit appeared to be the bank's fault, Bucci was still legally obligated to turn it over,

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-bucci-spent-wells-fargo-deposit-2012-5

[Phentex]

1. It's not mystery...

if he did not make the deposit, it was not his money to spend.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If I found $70K in my bank account

with no explanation for how it got there, I'd be damn sure it was the bank's mistake and I certainly wouldn't run out and spend it. The guy is an idiot; I can't imagine why he thought he'd get away with keeping and spending the money.

[Politicalboi]

3. What an idiot

Did he really think they wouldn't find out.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Maybe he figured since the banks have been spending OUR money like crazy....

[Cave_Johnson]

13. He was wrong...

... and a thief as well.

[girl gone mad]

14. Bullshit.

WF "accidentally" deposited money into his account and he "accidentally" spent the money. No crime was committed.

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. Accidentally spent the money...

THAT'S pretty fuckin' stupid. Pretty soon someone will come along and plead for us to pay off his student loans as well.

[Lex]

4. Weird that people think if it's someone else's mistake, then

it is perfectly okay to keep something not yours.

[B2G]

6. Good. Jail is where he belongs. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Wells Fargo invest heavily in private, for-profit prisons. Perhaps he'll end there

where it's on our tax dollar. And Wells Fargo profits.

[Rex]

7. Move over Bait Car, I smell an even better show!

nt.

[Scurrilous]

17. Think of the product placement!

[Rex]

18. Bawhahahaha!

"This arrest brought to you by Frost Bank and Lemon Pledge!"

[unreadierLizard]

8. No sympathy from me.

If it was me, I would check with the bank before blowing 67 grand that wasn't there in the first place.

[HiPointDem]

9. i agree the guy was dumb. but when the mistake goes in the opposite direction & the bank spends

*your* money, the burden of proof is on *you* & the bank won't be charged or do jail time.

[badtoworse]

11. What he have done if the bank credited his deposit to the wrong account.

[NNN0LHI]

12. Maybe he thought it was the tooth fairy who put it in there?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. He should say he thought it was the Nigerian Merchant deposit he was expecting.

Hello my friend,

Hope this day finds you well?, I am Ony Obo a merchant in Nigeria, I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous,I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.

Now that God is about to call me, I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends. I want God to be merciful to me and accept my souL. I have decided to give also to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria, Sudan, Europe and Kenya. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I
cannot do this myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them. I will want you to help me collect my last deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations which I deposited in security/finance house abroad,

which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of (Twelve Million Eight Hundred Thousand U.S dollars) I have set aside 25% for you, then 5% for any expenses incured.

If you are interested, please send your prompt reply to my private email address below which you will have to reply to if you will be kind enough to assist;
Email: [e-mail]

God bless you

Ony Obo

[Logical]

15. Is it flat out stealing. And he knew it. Not a smart move. n-t

[The Second Stone]

16. his lawyers should assert

as a defense that he is too big to fail and that if he is removed from the workforce that the ripples through the economy would have devastating consequences on other people too big to fail.

[Arctic Dave]

19. He should have taken the money and put it an

investment account and kept the gains.

Isn't that kinda what they do with it?

[NightWatcher]

23. Hells yes. That's the American Way

Then bought lotto tix with the profits.

[KatyMan]

20. He was only 22.

Nuff said. How many of us did dumb things at 22?

[Arkansas Granny]

21. He is not a child. He's an adult. He can vote. You would expect that he would realize that the

money was not his to spend.

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. He's old enough to have taken a shitload of student loans and bought a degree.

Then someone would be telling us that paying off his student loans is the progressive thing to do.

[Raine]

27. Absolutely nothing that comes close to being that stupid

and using that as a defense is no way "nuff said" to keep him out of prison.

[ashling]

22. My wife checks our account balances frequently

Mostly she catches minor discrepancies if anything, but a few years back she checked the day after she had been to the dentist. She had written a check to the dentist who, it turns out, banked at the same bank we did. It seems that their night deposit had been put in our account along with the check she had just written them. She immediately contacted the bank and the dentists office. She was a big hit with the dentist after that.

[Honeycombe8]

25. Yeah, he's guilty. Stupid kid. He knew it wasn't his money. He knew who the owner was.

And he spent it, anyway. He better start returning all that stuff he bought.

[gulliver]

28. I think he should be allowed to keep the money.

Otherwise it is too much of a risk for a whole lot of people who don't know any better. They may think "finders keepers." It seems like a form of accidental entrapment. The guy doesn't deserve to go to jail just because the bank's mistake created a situation where he made a mistake.

[grok]

29. It happened to my mom and dad. 16k

I do their taxes and check their finances from time to time. My mom has squirreled away a few funds so every once in a while we get some deposit from some other account she had forgotten about. but this was way too much.

For some reason BofA didn't want to cooperate at first with tracking this money down. But it wasn't all that hard. with the data on the information line of the statement(it was long) so I did a little Google-Fu on it.

Turns out it belonged to a police widow in Colorado. Her husband was just shot and killed a couple weeks earlier. The money had come from some some fund established to help poor police widows pay for funeral and medical expenses when necessary.

Everything was fixed in about 4 hours.

[jp11]

31. Terrible title.

He's facing jail time because he spent money that wasn't his not because they accidentally gave him money.

Also he is an idiot for spending money that wasn't his and not doing anything to protect himself like fleeing the country if he wanted to try and keep it.

[upi402]

32. found money?

not if the bank lost it.

but if they grab from YOU...


fuckoff then