Ga. banker missing - and so is $17 million

Aubrey Price is charged with embezzling $17 million from Montgomery Bank & Trust in Georgia. / AP Photo/Hyosub Shin, AJC
(CBS/AP) AILEY, Ga. -- A South Georgia bank closed by federal regulators has a missing board member who's accused of millions in fraud.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it seized Montgomery Bank & Trust in Ailey on Friday. The U.S. attorney's office said missing director Aubrey Lee Price, 46, has been charged with wire fraud involving the embezzlement of $17 million from the bank. Price controlled the bank's investments before disappearing last month. He was last seen on a ferry leaving Key West, Florida, for Fort Myers.
"According to the complaint charging him with wire fraud, defendant Aubrey Lee Price disappeared after telling acquaintances that he had lost a large amount of money through trading activities and that he planned to kill himself," the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement released last week.
If proven guilty, Price could face up to 30 years in prison.
The FDIC said Montgomery Bank was acquired by Moultrie-based Ameris Bank and its two branches will reopen Monday. Ameris is assuming all of the bank's $164 million in deposits and the FDIC is retaining the bulk of the failed bank's $173 million in assets.
The public is being urged to contact the FBI with any information at (212) 384-1000, or at ny1@ic.fbi.gov.
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Too bad there's no picture. He's headed to my area, but no idea what he looks like, so he'll just blend in with the other 1%ers.
The jew won't kill himself.If he's stupid enough to stay in the u.s.he'll be found.
by ObamasGuppies July 9, 2012 9:14 PM EDT
Does this guy know that this money was printed by Muslim Obama and it's worhtless. It will be the first time in history that cash will actually bounce.
by AndWereBack July 9, 2012 8:54 PM EDT
Look under Obama's bed.
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The mentality of the GOP. And you really want these people in power?
I'm still voting for President Obama as an Independent voter.