Mr.
Schiff: It's all about money.
FBI Special Agent Chip Cromer in Atlanta
investigated a bank that got taken
for a lot of money…
Mr.
Cromer: "About $5.6 million."
Mr. Schiff: Cromer says that
a man who owned a company turned out
to be the embezzler…
Mr. Cromer: "His company had
been successful in years past. He
had been awarded the Small Business
Minority Businessman of the Year in
the past. He had a good company and
I think what happened was that he
had fallen on some hard times and
the company wasn't doing as good as
he would have liked which means he
would have to change his lifestyle."
Mr. Schiff: Cromer says a bank
audit found a problem…
Mr. Cromer: "They had found
there was some potential fraud that
they had uncovered and so one of the
security officer's that I had been
dealing with gave me a call and said
he wanted us to help him look into
it."
Mr. Schiff: Cromer says FBI
Agents were not able to examine all
the subject's records…
Mr. Cromer: "We were not able
to that in this case because the computers
had already been destroyed when we
got involved in the case."
Mr. Schiff: The subject eventually
surrendered. He was convicted on 32
counts of bank fraud, sentenced to
10-years in prison, and ordered to
pay back more than $5.5 million to
the bank. I'm Neal Schiff of the Bureau
and that's the FBI's Closed Case of
the Week."
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