Canopy Financial Execs Accused of Stealing from Clients
Thus far, the Canopy Financial story has been about how some company execs allegedly cooked the books to secure more than $60 million in new venture capital investment. But we've now learned that the scheming may have been far broader, and affected many more people than just Canopy's investors and (mostly laid-off) employees. In a letter sent yesterday to its customers, Canopy said that it has reason to believe that former executives were skimming from the Health Savings Accounts that Canopy's technology is designed to help administer. In other words, they were stealing from ordinary folks employed by companies like Fifth Third Bank and Sovereign Bank (Canopy also claimed many clients outside the financial services space, but we've been unable to confirm their validity). Canopy's letter did not say how much money might have been taken, but we hear that it was well in excess of just a few hundred thousand dollars.
