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Achieve Financial CFO Recounts Home Invasion Terror

Prosecutors reveal suspects committed the crime in an attempt to fund their floundering financial services company for inmates.

By Peter Strozniak | Updated on March 09, 2016
Prosecutors revealed Brian Scott Witham and Michael Anthony Benanti, pictured, attempted robbery to fund a company they ran to provide financial services to inmates.

Terrorized by criminals, victimized by police investigators and prejudged by people in his community, the media and the credit union industry, Matthew Yussman lived under constant stress and suspicion for more than a year.

But the exhilaration of exoneration finally came March 2 after a Maine man admitted in court documents that he and another man invaded the Achieve Financial Credit Union CFO’s home and duct taped a bomb to his body in a failed attempt to rob the $122 million Achieve Financial branch in New Britain, Conn., on Feb. 23, 2015.

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