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Fairfield Bank Scandal Profiles a town’s rising star
Lee Roy Brown, once a celebrated local entrepreneur with a pig parlor kennels and 34 trotters, led a double life as embezzler. Investigators cite a nearly million-dollar shortage traced to two bookkeeping systems devised from FBI and bonding company bulletins, shocking Fairfield residents.
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Lee Brown
FBI
Bernard Gavzer
Brown
Margaret Mauck
Wayne County
Loren Mauck
Young Lee
Fairfield
Fairfield National Bank
Lee
Henry
U.S
Lee Roy Brown
D. L. Garrison
Fairfield National
Glen T. Brock
Midwest
Pig Parlor
Illinois
Brock
Arthur
Fairfield High
Weldon Kendrick
Fidelity Companies
Abraham Lincoln
William
Jesus Christ