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Federal authorities got connected quickly, said Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli, who gladly picked up the case — and the employee, Tracey Acevedo, 37, of Fair Lawn.
Investigators from the prosecutor’s White Collar Crime Unit arrested the former field account manager today and charged her with theft. She was released without bail pending an appearance tomorrow morning in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack.
After getting the tip from the U.S. Secret Service field office in Newark, investigators learned that Acevedo “used her T-Star login to place multiple fraudulent orders for dozens of hand-sets valued in excess of $50,000 without the authorization or permission of T-Mobile,” for more than a year, beginning in January 2008, Molinelli said.
Acevedo“By virtue of her position in the company, [she] was able to make it appear that the handset orders were being placed by existing T-Mobile business accounts — when, in reality, Acevedo actually ordered and shipped the handsets to family members at no cost,” the prosecutor said.
She tried to cover her tracks by using the account of a major business client who had no idea what was up, he added. Acevedo then either “set the cost to zero at the time of the order or later issued credits to the business account,” Molinelli said.
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