NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Call her the modern day Goldfinger.
A New York woman was charged on Wednesday with stealing as much as $12 million in gold bullion and jewelry over a period of six years, lifting the ill-gotten booty from her employer by concealing the stash in the lining of her pocketbook.
The district attorney for New York City’s borough of Queens said Teresa Tambunting, 50, was arraigned yesterday on charges of first-degree grand larceny and first-degree criminal possession of stolen property from Jacmel Jewelry Inc. “The defendant is accused of establishing a virtual mining operation … which siphoned off millions of dollars worth of the precious metal from her employer,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement.