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Jim Tucker may hardly imagine what he was listening to. It appeared like fiction, a nightmare too outlandish for an unassuming city like his.

It was July 2023, and Tucker was internet hosting a gathering of the board of Heartland Tri-State Financial institution, a community-owned enterprise in a small Kansas city referred to as Elkhart. Heartland was a beloved native establishment and a supply of Tucker household delight: Tucker served on the board together with his aged father, Invoice, who based the financial institution 4 a long time earlier. All the board members — the Tuckers and several other different farmers and businesspeople — had recognized each other for years.

That night, nevertheless, they have been gathering to debate what appeared, on its face, an epic betrayal. Over the previous few weeks, the financial institution’s longtime president, a preferred native businessman named Shan Hanes, had ordered a sequence of unexplained wire transfers that drained tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from the financial institution. Hanes transformed the funds into cryptocurrencies. Then the cash vanished.

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Further manufacturing for The Sunday Learn was contributed by Isabella Anderson, Anna Diamond, Frannie Carr Toth, Elena Hecht, Emma Kehlbeck, Tanya Pérez, and Krish Seenivasan.