More than a month ago, Achieve Financial Credit Union CFO Matthew Yussman claimed that two men invaded his Bristol, Conn. home, strapped a bomb to his chest and forced him to rob his own credit union.
But the home invaders were never found, the bomb turned out to be fake and the credit union's New Britain branch wasn't robbed on that morning of Feb. 23.
A police investigation, search warrant documents and CU Times interviews with police investigators reveal Yussman failed a lie detector test and stopped cooperating with police. Documents also show Yussman and his mother, who lives with him, made unusual statements about the two suspects who occupied their home for more than seven hours.
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