The Wall Street Journal reported a new lawsuit seeks to hold M&I Bank, now owned by BMO Harris Bank, responsible for allegedly enabling Tom Petters to orchestrate a Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of several billion dollars.

According to the Journal , the lawsuit, filed in a Florida bankruptcy court, seeks to recover nearly $24 billion from BMO Harris, which acquired M&I in 2011, saying Petters did not act alone in carrying out the fraud exposed in 2008 for which he is now serving a 50-year prison sentence.

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Previously on abfjournal: Forbes: GE Capital Could Have Stopped Petters’ Ponzi Scheme, August 27, 2014