The article actually sounds like a call for help, to get him out from the miserable four year prison term. I am surprised they gave it to him for a simple loan document falsifications. Half the country could be in prison for the same.

“"He was a fine, upstanding individual," Blake recalled recently." He was committed to family and to church and the progress of his community."
"Once he went into a room and signed 10 different loans. He was just running through and signing them, and he should have caught some of the bad applications."

Darin McAllister, left