Given the delightful relations our various Federal administrations have cultivated with Venezuela – or Guatemala — the likelihood of Price being extradited seem to be zilch. If he’s found.
A Georgia banker who went missing last month is being sought by federal authorities for allegedly embezzling millions of dollars from a south Georgia bank…Aubrey “Lee” Price, 46, is charged with wire fraud, and is suspected of defrauding more than 100 investors of at least $17 million dollars over the course of two years…
In late 2010, Price was celebrated by his peers and written up in newspaper articles after a company he controlled bought a controlling portion of the troubled Montgomery Bank & Trust in Ailey, Georgia. He was supposed to invest the bank’s capital. Instead, prosecutors say Price used a New York-based “clearing firm” — a dummy company set up to hide money — to coverup fraudulent wire transfers and investments…
Price disappeared about two weeks ago after telling his friends he had lost “a large sum of money through his trading activities”…Price indicated he planned to commit suicide off the Florida coast by “jumping off a ferry boat”…
But federal investigators, including the FBI, believe Price, who owns property in Venezuela and Guatemala, may be on the run. FBI Special Agent Michael Howard said in the complaint that investigators believe Price “may own a boat that would be large enough to travel to Venezuela from Florida…”
He could get up to 30 years in prison if captured, tried and found guilty. Or he could sit in some country which doesn’t enjoy the favor of Congress or the White House – sipping juleps and enjoying his early retirement.
