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- A former bank exec from Silicon Valley faked six out of 12 character reference letters.
- One letter claiming to be from his ex-fiancée called him the "greatest man I will ever know."
- He had submitted the letters at a sentencing hearing for a prior securities fraud conviction.
A former bank executive convicted of securities fraud faked a handful of character reference letters — including one from his ex-fiancée calling him the "the greatest man I will ever know"— in a failed attempt to get a lighter sentence, the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California said in a press release.