By Michael Cuviello
The Dallas Morning News
(TNS)
Sep. 24 — A Grand Prairie, TX, bookkeeper accused of stealing at least $1.2 million from an elderly Waxahachie couple who trusted her with their finances for years has been indicted on federal fraud and identity theft charges.
Nancy Black, 69, faces 10 counts of bank fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.
She made her initial appearance Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée H. Toliver.
Federal prosecutors allege Black worked as the couple’s bookkeeper from at least 2018 through 2024. According to the release, the couple first hired her in the early 2000s.
Authorities say she forged checks payable to herself, used the couple’s bank accounts to pay her personal credit card bills and withdrew cash from an account she was instructed to close more than a decade earlier.
She is accused of stealing at least $1.2 million from the couple.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould called the allegations a “profound breach of trust.” Christopher J. Altemus, special agent in charge of IRS Criminal Investigation’s Texas Field Office, said financial crimes can have a significant impact on victims.
If convicted, Black faces up to 30 years in federal prison on each bank fraud count and a mandatory two-year prison term for each aggravated identity theft count.
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