Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL CARAMAZZA, 40, of Poquonock Avenue, Windsor, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to five years of probation, the first six months of which CARAMAZZA must spend confined to his home with electronic monitoring. On January 3, 2008, CARAMAZZA pleaded guilty to one count of bank larceny.
According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, CARAMAZZA was employed as the teller supervisor at the Webster Bank branch at 774 North Main Street in West Hartford. During the morning of October 6, 2007, CARAMAZZA entered the bank’s cash vault on at least eight occasions and each time removed substantial amounts of cash. He subsequently placed the cash in a box that he removed from the bank after closing. To delay the discovery of the theft, CARAMAZZA reset the vault clock so that it could not be reopened until Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at noon. When the cash vault was opened on October 10, bank officers found $80,575 in cash inside the vault. Bank records revealed the vault should have contained $358,575.
On October 24, 2007, CARAMAZZA turned himself into the Federal Bureau of Investigation and handed over a duffle bag containing approximately $190,150. In a subsequent interview with FBI Special Agents, CARAMAZZA admitted that, over the course of approximately four months prior to October 6, 2007, he took $63,000 from the bank. On October 6, he took $215,000. CARAMAZZA further stated that he had spent most of the money at the Bradley Teletheater in Windsor Locks over a period of months, but that he also used a portion of the $215,000 for two weeks of living expenses while traveling from Connecticut to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Florida and back.
Today, Judge Arterton ordered CARAMAZZA to pay to Webster Bank restitution in the amount of $87,850. Judge Arterton also ordered several special conditions of CARAMAZZA’s probation, including that CARAMAZZA receive mental health counseling and treatment, and that he not gamble or enter any gambling establishment.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney James G. Genco
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