A federal judge sentenced a Saugus man to prison for stealing bank funds when he was working as a bank teller at a TD Bank in Boston, United States Attorney Leah Foley’s office said Monday.
Derek Aut, 29, was sentenced to 25 months, or two years and one month, in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Aut was ordered to pay $183,677.73 in restitution.
Aut pleaded guilty to embezzlement by a bank employee and aggravated identity theft in March, Foley’s office said in a statement.
Aut worked as a bank teller when he stole from the bank accounts of two customers, the statement read. He did so by forging their names on withdrawal slips, but one of the customers noticed money was missing from their account. Aut tried to hide the theft by taking money from another account and depositing it into the other person’s account.
In total, the theft led to the bank losing more than $180,000.
