August 22, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Former Kansas Bank CEO Given 24-Year Prison Sentence For Crypto Scam

Hanes had been duped by cryptocurrency scammers in a ‘pig butchering’ scam where he took money out of the Kansas bank to send to the scammers’ wallets. Federal prosecutors said that the scam appealed to his greed. The embezzlement led to the bank collapsing and being taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).…

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