C. H. Butcher Sr. countersued the FDIC.

Butcher contends in the suit he filed in response to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. suits against him that federal regulators contributed to the downfall of his sons’ banks. The 83-year-old patriarch of the Butcher family is named as a defendant in FDIC suits against the directors of C&C; Bank of Anderson County and United American Bank of Knoxville, both in Tennessee. Butcher’s son Jake, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for bank fraud.