A convicted swindler who nearly succeeded in taking $69 million from a bank is now charged with trying to pay a jail guard $70,000 to help him escape.
Armand Moore was back in court Thursday, a day after a federal judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison for the illegal transfer of $69 million from the First National Bank of Chicago.Moore was arraigned Thursday on a charge of conspiring to escape.
Prosecutors said on Wednesday, Moore's stepsister, working as a government informant, turned over $20,000 in FBI money to Stephanie Glass, 25. She is the wife of Randy Glass, a 28-year-old guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Moore is being held.
The money was a downpayment to assure Glass' help in the planned escape, the government said. After the woman accepted the money, she and her husband were arrested.