BOSTON — A 24-year-old Boston woman has pleaded guilty in federal court in connection with a scheme to defraud a Massachusetts bank.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Trinity Antonetty, 24, of Boston, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick scheduled sentencing for Aug. 18, 2026.
According to prosecutors, between July and October 2024, Antonetty opened a business bank account and allowed Phalentz Vernot to deposit fraudulently obtained cashier’s checks into the account. Antonetty then used funds from one of those checks to purchase a cashier’s check payable to a shell company controlled by Vernot. When the bank froze another check Vernot deposited into Antonetty’s account on suspicion of fraud, Antonetty called the bank and falsely claimed she operated a high-end car dealership and that the funds were related to a luxury vehicle.
Federal prosecutors said Vernot and five other men were charged in July 2025 as part of a related investigation into what authorities described as a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud banks in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Vernot pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2025. Earlier this month, two additional people were also charged in connection with the scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The bank fraud charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison, up to five years of supervised release and a fine of $1 million or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater.
U.S. Attorney Leah Foley; Ted Docks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Division; and P.J. O’Brien, special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Haven Division, announced the plea.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristen Kearney of the Securities, Financial and Cyber Fraud Unit is prosecuting the case.
