A Miami bank employee has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $190,000 from a deceased customer's accounts. Billy Gedeon, 34, admitted in court that he accessed the accounts without authorization after learning of the customer's death. In 2023, he forged the deceased's signature on a bank form to close an account and transferred the funds into his personal account at another bank.
Senior U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno has scheduled Gedeon's sentencing for June 10 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time. He faces up to 30 years in prison, with Judge Moreno considering U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida; Supervisory Official Antoinette T. Bacon of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Special Agent in Charge Rafael Barros of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Brian Tucker, Eastern Region, Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (FRB-OIG).
The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service and FRB-OIG. Assistant U.S. Attorney Latoya C. Brown and Trial Attorneys D. Zachary Adams and Chelsea R. Rooney prosecuted.
Court documents can be accessed on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida or through PACER under case number 25-cr-20067.