Financial: Crime Jail for a Fallen Banker

Crime Jail for a Fallen Banker

Jake Butcher wiped away tears as he stood last week with his wife and four children in a Knoxville court. The room was not far from the site of the 1982 ; World's Fair, which he made a success, and the gleaming headquarters building of the United American Bank, where he had been chairman. "I want to apologize for what I've done," said Butcher, 49. "I pray for the opportunity to try to restore or right some of the wrongs . . . My little boy there, nine years old, thinks I'm going to be gone 20 years." But Federal Judge...

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