Saturday, November 14, 2009

Business briefs: Reliant Bank provides ATMs at Sommet Center

Reliant Bank, in a bid to promote its expansion in Davidson County, has signed a multi-year agreement with the Nashville Predators hockey club to provide ATMs at Sommet Center.
Three of the machines will be located on the arena's main level, with a fourth targeted for use on the upper level, the bank said. The bank has nearly $400 million in assets. Sommet Center ATMs are its first off-site money machines.

"This gives us a way to get our name in front of 1.3 million attendees at Sommet Center events on an annual basis, including the Predators games, concerts and other attractions," said DeVan Ard, Reliant's president and CEO.

— RANDY MCCLAIN

Bernard Madoff allegedly paid off workers

NEW YORK — Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Madoff gave orders to pay the pair "whatever they wanted to keep them happy," a criminal complaint said.

The computer programmers, Jerome O'Hara, of Malverne, N.Y., and George Perez, of East Brunswick, N.J., were arrested at dawn Friday at their homes on charges that included conspiracy and falsifying records.

— ASSOCIATED PRESS



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