Some 55 people have been charged with forming a New York City fraud ring that used members’ jobs at a prominent charity and other places to steal financial information from wealthy donors and customers.

Arraignments were expected Friday in the case.

Prosecutors say in indictments that participants in the scheme had jobs that involved processing donor or customer checks. One worked at the UJA-Federation, a major Jewish charity.

Prosecutors say she and other members of the ring harvested people’s personal information from the checks and provided it to accomplices.

Then the accomplices would forge checks, deposit them in still other associates’ bank accounts and withdraw the money as soon as it cleared.

UJA-Federation had no immediate comment.

(Source: ABC News)