Cryptocurrency fraud that has turned a small town against itself

In the Vichita courtroom, Hanes offered his only public reflection in Sagor Bank. Carrying a gray suit, he approached the lines of the place, looked at him nervously in his former friends in the gallery. “I’m sorry,” Judge said. By the very end, he explained, he thought it was involved in a legitimate job. In January 2024. He told the Court that he had made a futile attempt at lost money, Letići in Perth, Australia, where some of his non-existent business partners were allegedly based. He was in contact with them until the moment he landed at the airport. But no tale is materialized. Only then, months after the bank’s closure, he accepted that he was deceived. “I will fight understanding forever how I was obliged,” Hanes said. “I should have caught him, but I’m not.”

After Hanes finished speaking, Judge Metlo rocked back in his chair and turned to deal with shareholders. “The best thing for you to forgive this man,” he said. “Leave things to retaliate. It’s my job and I’ll see that it was done for 24 years and 5 months in prison, the sentence asked for the federal prosecutors. The choir with IESES echoed from shareholders.

Hanes’s shoulders dropped. As two American marshals approached him, he gave a tie, slipped off his clothes jacket and emptied his pockets. Behind him are the shareholders calm. Hanes’ sister and one of his daughters ran each other, their coincests violate silence. Hanes once looked at them soon before marshal fox fox and carried out of the room.

One day last October, Tucker received the investigator’s call, it was a good news: Federal officials recovered $ 8 million in stolen funds, which were hidden on the account full of moorings, popular cryptocurlenza. The medium was a little fraction of what Hanes stole, but it would be enough to compensate for shareholders for almost all the money they invested in the bank.

Jubilation Tucker may have expected to feel that he was calf. His father was in the hospital and out, and the doctor warned that he had only days to live to live. That night Tucker went to his father’s hospital room and shared what he heard. Bill Tucker blinked several times, then said, “Oh, mine.” He died a week later.