Mike Smith, fix my warning lights!

According to the papers, Mike Smith was now managing an auto shop, earning about $250 a week and living up over the garage. An innocent juror or newspaper reader like me would probably think that this new career of his reflected credit on him. Bank executive starts life over again managing a garage. Puts past behind him, goes straight. Shows contrition for his sins, gets back to his working class roots. The story, however, was a cover story that his prosecutors bought into or developed. Mike Smith's big borrowers were running a witness protection program. Read part 6 of The Heritage Bank Story