When Carlos Gomez’s identity was stolen, his bank account wasn’t drained. But the Miami man went to jail and nearly ended up in prison for a crime organized by an employee at his former bank.

An employee at Wachovia Bank, which was bought by Wells Fargo, admitted stealing Gomez’s personal information from an account he closed in 2002 and using it to open up another account in a $1.1 million embezzlement.

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