Robin Katz: The Not-So-Bright "Bank Beauty" Accused of Stealing $110,000 from Client's Chase Bank Account

Something tells me Robin Katz has been watching too many movies.

Twenty-five-year-old Robin Katz, a former financial adviser of Chase Bank who skipped town for a "family emergency" in California in May, is now accused of siphoning $110,000 with a fake ATM card out of a client's account for the past year.

After receiving a client's complaint that there's a six-figure discrepancy in his account, officials said they traced the crime to Robin Katz. When officials arrested her, they found some receipts and that fake ATM card on her person. Looks like somebody got careless.

According to some mags, NY Post included, she is the "banker beauty" turned thief. More respected magazines declined to give an opinion of her appearance, other than to say that she was pretty much average and certainly not the lovely lady everyone's been going on about. But what photo accompanies each source's story? A relatively decent photo of Robin at a social gathering. The rest of us are still scratching our heads as to why someone accused of being a bank thief is given such Jesse James-style attention when the typical protocol in dealing with thieves is to plaster a mug shot on the front page of the paper.

But the truly careless nature about this purported "inside man" is her blatant misuse of social networks. Note to thieves: when tying up a job, don't incriminate yourself on MySpace. After supposedly keeping the gradual stream of stolen goods a secret for over a year, investigators found Robin Katz bragging on her MySpace profile that she is a "rocket scientist by day, party fool by night." According to NYMag.com, Robin's racy MySpace pictures didn't exactly show her as a discretionary advisor in any respect, by day or night. How would you like Chase Bank to assign her to managing your account? Not very good for business, is it?

We all know how the accused Robin Katz, a "rocket scientist" of a financial advisor, invested her hard-earned $110,000, right? She did invest it in an off-shore bank account in the Bahamas, yes?

No. The ever less-than-frugal Robin Katz supposedly spent the money on... stuff. And going out on the town, a source says. A neighbor recalls her party life by revealing that she was "kinda kooky." She evidently has an annoying laugh besides, which could be heard even over the loud music she would play at her house parties.

Robin Katz is currently being held in Riker's Island on $50,000 bail. Now where did that ATM card go?

Sources:
NYMag
NY Post
Gawker