this guy, different guy altogether, this is bernie ebbers. bern yeh ebbers is federal prisoner 56022-054. according to local reports at the time, when bernie ebbers drove himself to prison when he had to report to prison a few years back, he drove up to prison in his mercedes. at one point bernie ebbers was number 174 on the "forbes" 400 list of the richest people in america. bernie ebbers owned things like the biggest ranch in canada. bernie ebbers owned more than a lf mississippi and tennessee and louisiana and alabama. he actually bought all that half million acreage at once. he bought a swath of alabama and of all those other states all at once. he was able to do that because citigroup gave him a mortgage. citigroup gave him a mortgage for a billion dollars. billion with a b. a billion-dollar mortgage. now, bernie had this sweet deal going on with citigroup where he would do all of thinks company's business through citigroup, right? and in exchange citigroup told all the suckers in the country that they should buy stock in bernie. they al