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Man loses $133K in moving company fraud case, will 'never trust' Truist bank again - YouTube
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a dead man's bank account drained of
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more than a hundred and thirty thousand
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dollars in just a few weeks it happened
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after investigators say a worker at a
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florida moving company stole the man's
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bank account information then went on a
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spending spree and ever since the dead
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man's family has pleaded with truest
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bank to investigate their fraud
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complaint well that bank is
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headquartered here in charlotte and the
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family turned to queen city news for
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help here's chief investigator jody barr
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with tonight's moving money
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investigation
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so this is a this is showing you the
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checks that pass through the account uh
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starting in december of 21 and so on
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that's the only that's the last
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legitimate check i wrote that check is
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number 1123 and as you can see here it's
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the estate of james leslie mclean jr
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with me as the executor
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if you go to this check it's not even in
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sequence it's not 1124 like it should be
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it's 5001.
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perryn davis still can't believe his
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bank missed it i can't even make this
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out but it's that to a website address
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so it's not even a proper identifier but
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they put our account information down
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here they catch that check and instead
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of it having the proper identifying
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information here it has kayla johnson
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at 41st southeast 51st street in miami
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and they cashed this check do you know
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kayla johnson in miami no absolutely not
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between december and february someone
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drained parent davis's account of every
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bit of the 133 thousand dollars in it
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and it's not my money it's the money of
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my deceased father it's his estate
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account
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i'm responsible for that i have to
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report to the probate court about that
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so what am i supposed to do tell them oh
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well the money's gone i can't do that
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bank statements show multiple electronic
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payment transfers and checks davis says
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he never wrote made out to people in
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places he's never heard of so they're
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using our account information down here
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but they're putting random people's
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names and addresses here and the bank's
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been cashing these checks
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davis opened the account after his
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father died the withdrawal started in
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november when davis paid imperial
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freight lines llc out of florida to move
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his father's belongings on november 12th
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and 22nd davis made two payments to
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imperial freight lines totaling 3 500
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his bank statement shows imperial hit
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his account again for one dollar the
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following day
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then the party started starting the day
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after the move was completed until
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february they depleted the account over
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130 thousand dollars here's another
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check
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for 8
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286 dollars to imperial freight lines
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from a brad hughes
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at another gmail address using our
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account information and the bank cash
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all these checks why are they cashing
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checks from people
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that's insane davis didn't have a clue
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this was happening he initially opened
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his account with sun trust a bank merged
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with bb t to create truest bank davis
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said the bank wouldn't allow online
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access for estate accounts and he had no
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way to monitor it from his home in
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philadelphia davis only learned the
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account was drained in february when he
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tried to pay a probate attorney and the
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check bounced
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red alert
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it should have been impossible there was
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over 130 thousand dollars in that
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account and it's it's it's impossible to
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wrap your mind around how how can this
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happen
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i thought that i was dealing with a
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reputable bank that had safeguards in
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place and
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they obviously failed davis suspected
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the moving company of stealing his money
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he caught his bank and filed a fraud
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report which seemed to get his bank's
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attention
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after i filed the fraud case on the 11th
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i got four emails between the 14th and
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the 18th saying oh
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you have a potential fraud alert you
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need to get online and check your
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account so they didn't bother to do this
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while the fraud was happening this is
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after all the money was gone and then
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they're telling me to log in online and
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check my account when they wouldn't
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allow the estate account to have online
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access and then after all the money's
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gone then they start blowing my email up
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saying oh there's fraud we're seeing a
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higher than normal
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level of activity why didn't they do it
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when the fraud wasn't happening there's
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multiple banks across the country not
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just in broward county right across the
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united states perryn davis also
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contacted lauderhill police detective
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richard clark for an investigation
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you've uncovered what appears to be a
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pretty large case of fraud absolutely
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yes
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organized the detective opened a fraud
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investigation and found parent davis
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suspicions were correct he was a fraud
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victim and the target of the
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investigation was the florida moving
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company he'd hired just a few months
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earlier and here is a copy of a check
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while clark was investigating the bank
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records the department got a call from
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imperial freight lines owner asking for
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an investigation into one of its own the
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company accused an employee of faking
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moving contracts using stolen banking
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information to pay the contracts and the
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worker would get paid commission clark
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knew then his target wasn't the company
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but someone on the inside during the
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course of my investigation
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i was contacted by the owner of imperial
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freight lines llc that was on the 24th
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of march
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he came to the police department
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and made an allegation that his business
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his company was a victim of fraud by his
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employee he named the employee to be
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bruce horner bruce horner's been here
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before lauderhill police confirm this
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bruce horner is the same bruce horner
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investigated by the secret service in
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2007 an investigation that led federal
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prosecutors to charge horner with
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stealing credit card information from
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customers of his florida restaurant then
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taking one hundred thousand dollars from
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them prosecutors also accused horner of
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depositing 4.6 million dollars into his
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personal bank account money he stole
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using bad checks horner pleaded guilty
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the following year and a judge sentenced
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him to more than seven years in federal
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prison when we searched the vehicle
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these are just photographs of a couple
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of the sheets we took from the notebook
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and inside this vehicle were
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about 11 notebooks
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and inside those notebooks
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are records of routing and account
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numbers for different account holders
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numbering 55
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meaning somewhere out there
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investigators are looking for 55 other
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potential victims now 14 years after his
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federal conviction bruce horner is
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facing prosecution again and that's when
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i made contact with mr horner i visited
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him at
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his employer and arrested him there
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we went to lauderhill florida to find
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imperial freight lines llc
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which turns out is on the second floor
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of the truest bank building
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you can't even make that up talk about
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iron the same bank parent davis is
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fighting with now this is this is how
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much notes i have at the same bank yeah
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lauderhill police accused the imperial
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freight lines employee of stealing 133
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thousand dollars from all right
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let's go we made several attempts over
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the course of three weeks to speak with
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imperial freightline's owner
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we didn't get a response so we went to
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the company's florida office where
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police arrested bruce horner just a few
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weeks ago
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how you doing hi how's it going good
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good i'm looking for mr hoffman
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uh
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not in here not in this office bro i
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mean not that i know
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this is uh
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imperial yeah it is okay i called last
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week and left the message i'm with fox
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news out of charlotte
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and uh having her back so we were
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we were trying to find uh some way to
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get a hold of them we're about to run a
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news report on bruce horner and the
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allegations with him and uh okay we're
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trying to get someone to
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from here to talk with us yeah well if
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you if you'll call back i mean you know
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that's all i can tell you okay okay i'll
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give another shout thank you do you
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think imperial set themselves up
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for what's happened now absolutely a
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simple background check would have done
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a phone call it's easy or like could you
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and i did get on the website and type
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the guy's name in and you find it
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they set themselves up
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not only for me and the other 50 people
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but they brought this on themselves
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you don't put a wolf in the hen house
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and expect things to be okay
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when we interviewed davis last month he
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hadn't heard from truest bank in nearly
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a month the banks credited parent davis
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around 112 thousand dollars so far but
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davis says the bank still three months
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later owes him more than 21 thousand
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dollars to correct the fraud the bank
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missed this was two hours 31 minutes and
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34 seconds after weeks of calls and
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waiting and no help from truist davis
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had nowhere else to turn what are you
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supposed to do i don't know
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that's why i called you guys everything
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that could have failed did fail and i
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don't know at this point that there's
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anything that they could do to
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reestablish their
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their trust
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fully want shame on you fool me twice
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shame on me
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we asked truest bank for an interview to
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explain what happened here citing
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privacy laws the bank declined and sent
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us a statement instead thanking us for
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letting them know about perryn davis
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truist also denied any broad-based fraud
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trouble but the bank says it had
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complaints from customers related to
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debit cards in february which did delay
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response times perryn davis isn't alone
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the internet is littered with dozens of
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complaints about truist even a facebook
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page where people have united to share
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their stories about truest bank imperial
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freight lines owner christopher hoffman
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finally called me back last week he
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would not answer any of our questions
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including whether the company ran a
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background check on bruce horner before
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hiring him hoffman says imperial freight
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lines is cooperating with the criminal
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investigation bruce horner also did not
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respond to messages i left for him with
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his family members as for parent davis
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truist bank contacted him friday to tell
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him the bank's fraud unit has an active
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investigation into his case the bank
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though still has not credited his
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account the remaining 21 thousand
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dollars
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