A bank worker from Boston has been accused of forging a $65,000 check so that he could buy himself a brand new BMW X6 SUV.
Damion Evans was an employee at Cambridge Trust where he held a customer service position, putting him in the perfect place to steal cash from the bank, presumably hoping no one would notice for years.
Evans wrote a treasurer’s check for $65k to realize his BMW-owning dream in June 2021, taking that check to BMW of Norwood, where he signed up for a blue X6, which was registered and inspected the same day, and issued with a title on June 30, Mass Live reports.
When bank officials confronted Evans to ask why he had generated the check without reason he claimed he had done so by mistake and deleted the transaction. But Evans couldn’t produce the physical check to show his employers, and when video from the bank was replayed it showed that Evans wasn’t helping customers at the time the check had been generated.
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But by July 5 bank officials had reported Evans to the police, and they were now able to supply authorities with a copy of the check signed by the accused. Evans was fired the same day, but that’s the least of his worries. He has been charged with embezzlement from a bank, forgery of a check and uttering a false check, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office says.
Even taken individually, those charges sound serious. According to the website of Boston-based Urbelis Law, embezzlement of property valued over $250 carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
And all for a BMW X6? Hey, it’s a nice enough car, but it’s definitely not worth throwing your entire life down the toilet for. And with only a $65k budget (unless he was padding out the pot with his own cash) it can’t have been an X6 M50i, which costs $89,100, let alone an X6 M, which is priced at $113,700. So it must have been a bog-basic $70,100 X6 xDrive40i. If I was his lawyer I’d be working the insanity angle.
But come on, humor us (and that’s what this is, we’re only having fun, not condoning Evans’ actions or suggesting anyone do the same): what new car do you want so bad that you would be dumb enough to try to defraud your employer and risk five years in the slammer to buy?