FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – A Gary, Minnesota woman is facing three felony charges after prosecutors say she wrote bad checks to a Sacred Heart school fundraiser and a local sports equipment company, using a bank account that had been closed for fraud years earlier.
Kelsey Rae Wastweet, 36, of Gary, was charged June 15 in Polk County District Court with three counts of felony issuance of dishonored checks.
According to a criminal complaint, Wastweet wrote two checks in the summer of 2025 to the RaiseRight gift card fundraiser program at Sacred Heart school in East Grand Forks. The first check, dated July 22, 2025, was for $996. The second, dated July 30, 2025, was for $9,750. Both checks bounced and were returned as “unable to locate account.”
RaiseRight also reported that Wastweet placed two additional online gift card orders through the fundraiser on Aug. 6,…
THE TD BANK INSIDER “BRIBE-FOR-DATA” SCHEME (USA)
Date: February 17, 2026 Perpetrator: Edward Low (Former Bank Employee)
Case Description: In a high-profile case of “Insider Threat,” Edward Low, a former employee of TD Bank in New York, pleaded guilty in a New Jersey federal court to accepting bribes in exchange for confidential customer data. Between 2021 and 2022, Low leveraged his internal access to harvest the personal details of high-balance account holders. He then sold this “hot data” to external fraud syndicates for as little as $26,700 in personal kickbacks.
The external fraudsters used the information Low provided to conduct “Account Takeovers” (ATO), creating fraudulent checks and falsifying bank records to drain over $500,000 from unsuspecting customers. Low even went as far as helping co-conspirators open shell company accounts at a second financial institution where he was later employed. He now faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. This case has sent shockwaves through the global banking sector, highlighting that even the most robust external firewalls cannot protect against a “rogue insider” with administrative credentials.
Link to Original: US Dept of Justice – TD Bank Insider Plea