Terrorized by criminals, victimized by police investigators andprejudged by people in his community, the media and the creditunion industry, Matthew Yussman lived under constant stress andsuspicion for more than a year.

But the exhilaration of exoneration finally came March 2 after aMaine man admitted in court documents that he and another maninvaded the Achieve Financial Credit Union CFO’s home and ducttaped a bomb to his body in a failed attempt to rob the $122million Achieve Financial branch in New Britain, Conn., on Feb. 23,2015.

Ironically, what led the two men to commit this crime was to getcash to support a floundering national company they operated, whichprovided financial services for inmates, giving them access tomoney after they were released from state and federal prisons,according to federal prosecutors.