Wife hid $800k, sues bank for blabbing to husband

Those of you who keep a bank account secret from your partner should take note of this one....

A Great Neck, NY, wife has filed a lawsuit against Chase Bank after an employee told her husband about her personal $800,000 bank account. Nazita Aminpour, 43, a dentist, said her husband, David Shamash, 47, didn’t know about her private stash of cash until a Chase employee cold-called their home to provide investment advice. Her husband answered the phone and the jig was up.

The Long Island dentist is suing Chase bank to recover the more than $150,000 that she says she had to share with her hubby after the bank employee let it slip that she had a huge account balance he didn't know about.

Nazita Aminpour, 43, and her husband, David Shamash, 47, have a joint account at a Chase branch in Kew Gardens, Queens, along with a custodial one for their three children. But Aminpour also had a secret stash account of $800,000 at the branch in her name only, according to a suit filed last week in Queens Supreme Court.

A bank employee trying to be helpful spilled the beans to Shamash by cold-calling him and telling him he should take his small fortune out of the low-interest account and make other investments with Chase, the suit alleges.

Shamash said he knew nothing about the money.

"Shamash then began harassing [Aminpour], asking for money from the funds that he can invest in the stock market and to cover a margin call he had on his stock account," the wife's suit says.

Shamash began "alienating" Aminpour, so she forked over $155,000 "to save her marriage and restore order in the marital home," the suit says.

She says the bank placed her in a "situation of duress."

She also claims in the suit that the bank violated federal privacy laws that "prohibit the disclosure of non-public, personal information."

Aminpour wants Chase to cover her loss and shell out for her lawyers' fees.

A recent bank statement submitted with the court papers shows her with a balance of more than $1 million -- 25 percent higher than in March last year, when her husband had his hand out.

Chase Bank is declining to comment because the matter is currently under litigation.