The Nation - News from Feb. 2, 1986
An attorney who represented convicted Tennessee banker Jake Butcher fatally shot himself in the head with a shotgun only hours before he was to report to a prison to begin serving a 20-year sentence for tax fraud, police said. George W. Ridenour Jr., who was found dead in his car on Interstate 75 north of Knoxville, had been Butcher’s personal attorney and general counsel of Butcher’s United American Bank of Knoxville, which failed in 1983. Butcher is serving a 20-year sentence for income tax fraud and defrauding $17 million from banks.
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