Aiken businessmen indicted after allegedly swindling elderly woman worth $8 million

A federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina on Tuesday returned a three-count superseding indictment against prominent Aiken businessmen Cody Lee Anderson, 37, and Thomas Allen Bateman Jr., 50, for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Anderson and Bateman face a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and will make a first appearance and be arraigned on July 31, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina. The indictment alleges Anderson and Bateman enticed an elderly woman to leave...