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LINCOLN — Nearly 14 months after the FBI searched Jesse Hill’s home and state regulators accused the Hickman financial adviser of fraud in helping a now-dead client scam banks for more that $30 million, no charges have been lodged against him.
The case, first reported by the Examiner, has been described as the state’s largest that involves bank fraud.
On Dec. 12, 2022, the FBI searched this rural Hickman acreage owned by financial advisor Jesse Hill, as part of a probe into the largest bank fraud case in state history. (Paul Hammel/Nebraska Examiner)
A year ago, a handful of banks filed civil lawsuits against Hill, alleging he provided fabricated financial statements that helped his client and friend, Aaron Marshbanks, get loans.
An FBI search of Hill’s rural home followed shortly therafter, and then the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance went to court to freeze the financial adviser’s accounts and suspend his operations.
But those civil lawsuits are on hold, and nothing has come from the search or court injunction.