P.M. BRIEFING : N.H. Banker Pleads Not Guilty
A banker who disappeared last week after leaving taped confessions that he was “a crook” who embezzled more than $1 million to cover stock market losses pleaded not guilty today and was jailed pending a bail hearing.
Leon P. Dusoe, 54, of Keene, a vice president and head of the trust division at Granite Bank, was arrested by FBI agents Saturday night as he stepped off a plane from Las Vegas at the Manchester Airport.
A federal magistrate scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to determine whether Dusoe will be represented by a private attorney or will apply for a public defender. He was ordered held at the state prison in Concord.
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