Jill Sung’s sister Vera Sung, a director for the bank, elaborated that the family was so badly shaken by the case, they’ve become, outside of their scope as bank officials, advocates for improvements in the justice system. It was very entertaining the transcript read back… it would have been wonderful to have the not guilty verdicts filmed, because that was 80 counts of not guilty, not guilty, not guilty, and then repeated by the court clerk, and the other two defendants, for a total of 240 not guiltys.” “As the trial went on, it was pretty incredible to us how bad the case was, on the D.A.’s side, and it’s very hard to capture that. Sung elaborated that she liked the finished film well enough, but she did wish that the cameras could have gone into the courtroom, to demonstrate more fully what she describes as the ludicrousness of the prosecution’s side. We were in a very precarious position where potentially we could lose, right? And that would be quite disturbing and who knows what that would look like?” I always felt there was a downside to this (the film). “I don’t like being probed, or having to show any part of myself on camera. “I’m a very private person,” commented Jill Sung, president and CEO of Abacus. According to two of the founder’s daughters, though, the perils of the case and its aftermath weren’t only professional ones. They came close to losing everything that the bank’s founder, Thomas Sung, worked since 1984 to build, as relayed in the documentary film “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” screening at the Wing Luke Museum. The Sung family of Abacus Federal Savings Bank spent years in court, accused by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in New York City of fraud, connected to the 2008 financial crisis.
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