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GTFO here with that BS. Your cousin’s talking out of his ass. Bank gives you the option to press charges or not.
No prosecutor's (let alone bank) gonna waste his time with a dad who’ll just say on the stand that actually he’d given the card and / or permission to his son and just plain forgot due to stress / age / medication. And that the bank and local DA's office went crazy.
And that remembering that the bank will almost definitely lose their client's present and future business. If for no other reason than just sheer embarrassment.
Guy left the bank and closed his accounts. Kid was arrested and charged. No idea if the DA took it to trial.
My understanding was/is most banks have close to a zero tolerance policy toward intentional fraud, and theft. It's one thing if your spouse makes a withdrawal you didn't know about and is an authorized person on the account. Accidents happen. This was repeated and intentional and reported as a crime. Maybe it's different elsewhere, but you can't just "my B" away several charges related to robbing a bank.