Stephen DeCrescenzo, 37, faces up to 20 years in prison on one count of wire fraud for embezzling the funds during a three-year period, said Deirdre M. Daly, U.S. attorney for Connecticut.
He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New Haven before Judge Janet Bond Atherton.
His sentencing date has been set for Feb. 17. He was released on $50,000 bond.
From September 2008 to November 2011, he took money from customer accounts and transferred the funds into a separate customer account that he had access to.
As part of his scheme, he disguised numerous withdrawals from the accounts as authorized cash withdrawals by customers when, in fact, he had stolen the money.
DeCrescenzo also wired funds stolen from a customer account into another bank account for his personal benefit.
The case was investigated by the Connecticut Financial Crimes Task Force, the Greenwich Police Department and the New Canaan Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas P. Morabito.
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