Tom Hardin

That was tough.

You know, you feel like everybody trusted you up to this point.

And then they had no idea this was going on for a while because I wasn't allowed to tell them.

And so you start to, again, just figure out, you know, I let a lot of people down.

Like people trusted me that I wouldn't engage in something like this.

And then I wasn't sentenced to, that was 2010.

I wasn't sentenced to 2015.

We kept getting a holding date for the sentencing.

The pre-sentencing report was good.

Like the 5k letter from the FBI was actually, you know, it's like, here's all the bad stuff, but here's the good stuff, which is a lot longer, the bad stuff.

So that looked good.

So they were recommending no prison just because I had helped them out so much.

And the FBI writes what's called the 5K letter for the cooperator.

So that was being written.

But we kept getting the sentencing day pushed out.

And I'm just applying for jobs to be like a back office finance guy at any company because I was a really good finance guy or Excel guy.

And even when I had leads on jobs, neighbors were helping me out.

They're like, you're a good guy.

I'll vouch for you.

HR would always come and be like, look, we can't hire this guy.