In this YouTube episode, Steve and Rod share the incredible true story of J. Knox McConnell, a Pennsylvania banker who turned the First National Bank of the little coal mining community of Keystone, West Virginia, into a billion-dollar financial empire…before it all came crashing down. From “Knox’s Foxes” to buried documents and fraud convictions, this Appalachian scandal has it all.
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