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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

Given that he was embezzling bank funds to funnel into a fake crypto scam, and the people who those funds belonged to were not in fact the bank, and the article suggests those people were not made whole, I'm just gonna say that it's not about the bank, it's about the people who lost shit like their life savings to this a-hole.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Because the bank was insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the FDIC "absorbed the $47.1 million loss" after "Hanes’ fraudulent actions caused HTSB to fail and the bank investors to lose $9 million," the US Attorney's Office said.

It sounds like no customer with the bank lost anything. Only investors who I assume are well off anyways.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The banks customers were not the only people who he stole from. However, I concede the point.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh yeah. That's fair.

I guess the silver lining here was that it could have been so much worse but thank goodness for FDIC.

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