A former Santander Bank employee has pleaded guilty to using his position at the bank for a fraud conspiracy that targeted older customers.

Dayquan Fitzgerald-Williams, 26, formerly of Connecticut and currently residing in North Carolina, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty on Wednesday via videoconference to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Fitzgerald-Williams used his position as a bank employee, first at Citizens Bank and then at Santander Bank, to access customer information and provide that information to others, who obtained funds from the accounts through unauthorized transactions.

As a mortgage development officer at Santander Bank, Fitzgerald-Williams searched bank records between late 2018 and early 2020 for older customers who had at least $100,000 in their accounts, the statement said.

Prosecutors say he then passed along customer identifying and account information to others who used that information to cause approximately 70 fraudulent checks totaling approximately $1.6 million to be issued and more than $2 million in ACH transactions to be made or attempted.

Not all of the fraudulent checks or ACH transactions ultimately cleared customers’ accounts, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

During the conspiracy, Fitzgerald-Williams also attempted to negotiate a fraudulent check in the amount of $34,700 made payable to him.

Fitzgerald-Williams is released pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.