Ask your friend in Kansas to contact the police and see if they will take her complaint and investigate or not.
Is there truly no other lawyer in that city or in a nearby city within a radius of 5-10 miles that you could contact to help with this situation?
Do a basic background check on this banker on the county court records online to see if there is any record of criminal activity.
Please mention the name of the bank and city, state (I would like to know if it has any initials at the end of the name (such as FSB or something similar) or not. I'm trying to determine if this is a state bank, a federal bank, etc. so I can consider an additional avenue you could pursue within the banking industry.
One, please look at the date of this thread. Mrnyc3guy has not been back to the forum since he posted on October 15. It is possible all has been resolved.
This also hardly seems, or seemed, like a police matter. All that we have heard is from a friend who lives in a different state and has no access to the facts necessary to determine what the situation is with the woman and her settlement funds.
And, if poster for some reason
does decide to return to the forum, he should NOT mention the bank or the city where the bank is located (the state name was already provided). He has made comments about those connected with the bank which, if the bank were identified, would also identify those individuals.
Mrnyc3guy is just a
friend of the woman and cannot take any legal action on her behalf. If the woman in Kansas is concerned, she can contact an attorney other than the one she currently has - this again if all has not by now been resolved.