A poker-playing investment honcho was the victim who had his seven-figure bank account looted by a Chase financial adviser, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Dorone Ilan Farber, 35, had $110,000 swiped from his bank account by Robin Katz, 25, a sexy investment planner working at Chase’s Midtown headquarters, the sources said.
Farber, a broker for Hilliard, Farber & Co., a Wall Street company owned by his uncle, loves cards and placed 128th in the 2008 World Series of Poker. He won $4,216.
When asked by phone yesterday about the pilfering of his bank account, he told a reporter, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Later, at Hilliard company offices at 45 Broadway, a colleague would only say that Farber contacted cops when he noticed the money missing from his account.
Katz, 25, had been allegedly siphoning funds from Farber’s account for the past year when she suddenly fled the Big Apple in May, telling her bosses she had a family emergency back home in California.
A month later, Farber noticed his money missing, the sources said.
Auditors determined that an extra ATM card had been created in Farber’s name to make dozens of withdrawals from his account.
Authorities tracked Katz down and told her she had to come back to the Big Apple to explain what had happened. She was nabbed when she returned to the city last week and is being held at Rikers Island on $50,000 bail.
Sources said she told authorities she had taken the $110,000 because she had trouble paying her bills.
Authorities found the manufactured ATM card and four withdrawal receipts in her wallet, according to the criminal complaint.
Carise Raney, 26, a pal of Katz’s from the banker’s days at Smith College in Massachusetts, said she invited Katz to a family event in West Virginia last weekend and that she had agreed to come.
But Raney said that about a week ago, she spoke to Katz, who told her she was in California and couldn’t make it because she had to go to New York for work.
“She said, ‘My boss said I have to come to this conference in New York.’ She sounded upset about it. She said she’d try to come by over the weekend,” Raney said. “I was really sad she didn’t come.”
Additional reporting by Tom Liddy