LAKE COUNTY, Fla.,None — A credit union employee and the mother of a death row inmate, was indicted Thursday tor stealing customer's credit information to take out loans in their names.
The Secret Service told WFTV Nazreen Mohammed was using the money to finance her son Dane Abdool's defense. Mohammed is accused of trying to take $430,000 from banks like a RBC bank where she worked.
Abdool was sentenced to death for burning his 16-year-old girlfriend alive. He used the gas can to douse his victim and then set her on fire, killing her.
Abdool is a convicted murderer. In 2006, he killed his girlfriend in Winter Garden by dousing her with gas, setting her on fire and watching her burn to death.
His mother spoke out at sentencing.
"It meant something to me, because he had value," she stated in court.
But Abdool was sentenced to death and now his mom is in trouble with the law too for embezzlement, banking fraud and identity theft.
A federal grand jury indicted the 47-year-old Mohammed Thursday. The former bank employee is accused in a scheme to rip off elderly and deceased customers.
Jay Rogers said she noticed money missing from her deceased sister's account.
"I wanted to see how it went from one account to another, how it was done," Rogers said.
The indictment shows first at Fairwinds Credit Union in Lady Lake and then at the RBC Bank in Clermont. Mohammed took out loans in the victims' names and made withdrawals on their accounts and then funneled the money into bogus accounts that she created.
So where did the money go?
"She said she had some legal fees from trouble her son was currently embroiled in," U.S. Secret Service agent Jim Glendinning said.
WFTV was told the banks reimbursed customers and credit scores were not hurt. But it's very likely some of the money made into the hands of attorneys trying to get her son off death row.
Mohammed still has not been arrested.