BUFFALO, N.Y. — An updated civil complaint in Five Star Bank's lawsuit against Rochester restaurateur Katherine Mott names new defendants and provides new details on the alleged check-kiting scheme that defrauded the bank of $18.9 million.
The new complaint, filed May 8, says Kristina Bourne, Robert Harris, Timothy Larocca and Taylor Pagano acted as "mules" for Mott and "knowingly and wrongfully held, moved, dissipated, disposed of, hid and otherwise concealed millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains."
The new document alleges that Mott, also identified as Katherine Mott-Formicola, had a history of check kiting. It alleges that numerous other banks, including Tompkins Community Bank, Canandaigua Bank and Trust, Lyons National Bank and Evans Bank closed her accounts for suspicious activity between 2019 and 2022.
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