Rashad Liverpool, Financial Exploitation, District of Columbia 2020

Two Former SunTrust Bank Employees Sentenced for Defrauding Elderly Widow

Washington DC – Rashad Liverpool, 28, and Robert Tillery, 45, were each sentenced on Friday, February 28, 2020, by the Honorable James A. Crowell IV, Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, for defrauding a 72-year-old military widow with diminished capacity of $83,800.

Liverpool and Tillery, both former SunTrust Bank employees, pled guilty in February 2020 to financial exploitation of an elderly person, in violation of Title 22, D.C. Code, Section 933.01(a)(3). The court ordered both defendants to pay restitution for the entire amount that they each stole.

The court suspended imposition of each defendant’s sentence to the maximum period of incarceration provided for under the D.C. Sentencing Guidelines, effectively sentencing each defendant to the maximum period of supervised probation. The court may impose incarceration if a defendant violates the terms of probation.

According to the government’s evidence, during the summer of 2018, Liverpool and Tillery each frequently visited the victim, a client of SunTrust Bank, after normal business hours and against bank policy. They identified funds that the widow held at Bank of America and took advantage of her diminished capacity in order to move those funds into accounts that they controlled.

Liverpool moved $51,900 into a joint account that he created in his and the victim’s name at Capital One Bank. He used all of the funds for his own benefit, including two trips to California and one trip to Miami. Meanwhile, Tillery withdrew $3,000 in cash from one of the victim’s accounts and wrote himself a check for $25,700 from another. He used these funds to make purchases at various outlet stores and finance a move to Chicago.

In announcing the sentence, Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips commended the work of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. The prosecution is part of the Office’s wider efforts to combat crimes against seniors and vulnerable adults.

This prosecution is indicative of the continued collaboration between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Attorney General to address the abuse and exploitation of older adults. The Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation Initiative at the U.S. Attorney’s Office has enabled the Office to develop and coordinate further its prosecution of these cases and enhance its overall support of older or vulnerable victims.

Defendant: Rashad Liverpool, Age: 28, Crime: Financial Exploitation, State: Washington DC, Date: February 28, 2020, Sentence: Maximum period of supervised probation, Amount: $83,800.

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