{"id":14060,"date":"2021-03-23T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/?p=14060"},"modified":"2024-07-22T18:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T22:13:21","slug":"why-would-a-ceo-of-a-successful-cannabis-company-commit-bank-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/why-would-a-ceo-of-a-successful-cannabis-company-commit-bank-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Would a CEO of a Successful Cannabis Company Commit Bank Fraud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Patterson, the former head of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaze.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eaze cannabis delivery company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has pleaded guilty to committing bank fraud while he was still active as CEO. Specifically, the allegations were that he conspired with at least two others\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamid Akhavan and Ruben Weigand\u2014to deceive banks into processing more than $100 million worth of credit and debit payments for cannabis purchases. The scheme was designed to disguise the purchases so as to create the impression that they were unrelated to the purchase of cannabis. This is considered money laundering. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did this crime come to be committed? Why was it deemed necessary? And what are the implications for other businesses? We\u2019ll unpack what happened at Eaze and what it might mean for others in the cannabis industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why Commit Bank Fraud?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve been to a dispensary recently, you might have noticed that you were unable to use your credit or debit card to pay for your purchases. That\u2019s not a universal truth, but it is very common\u2014many dispensaries only accept cash. That\u2019s because cannabis is still illegal at the federal level. Among other things, that means federal institutions\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/a-new-fincen-report-shows-a-decline-in-banks-working-with-cannabis-businesses\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">like banks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014aren&#8217;t required to recognize the legitimacy of cannabis businesses, even if those businesses are operating legally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For some cannabis businesses, that means they simply can\u2019t offer payment by credit or debit. For others, it means the process of gaining access to these services is too complicated to figure out. Opening a business in the cannabis sector is already complex and difficult, and this just <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">makes it that much harder for businesses to succeed. In 2021, after all, many people don\u2019t carry cash. Limiting customers to cash purchases means they might be required to leave the dispensary, visit an ATM, and then return. That adds a lot of extra steps to the purchase process for customers and all but eliminates the possibility of an impulse buy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of this is an excuse for money laundering, of course. But it does lay some groundwork for why Patterson might have felt the need to cheat to compete. Patterson himself backs this up, saying that he \u201cunderstood that if banks were aware of the nature of the transactions they would not allow them&#8221;. Unfortunately, fraud is no stranger to the cannabis industry. Because of cannabis&#8217; federal status, the industry is left open for individuals to take advantage of unethical business practices to stay afloat, even bank fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Can Businesses Accept Credit Card Payments?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what\u2019s the right thing to do if you\u2019re in the cannabis business? You want your business to be competitive, of course, but you also want to play by the rules to stay in the game. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answers are on the way. While it\u2019s frustrating that we haven\u2019t seen federal legalization yet, the House of Representatives did recently reintroduce the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/the-safe-banking-act-new-updates-and-what-to-expect\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If this act is ever signed into law, it will prohibit banking regulators from barring financial institutions from offering their services to cannabis businesses. That would open a lot more doors for cannabis companies looking to institute credit and debit card payments as a viable means of purchase within their stores. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, entrepreneurs are getting creative when it comes to finding solutions to this problem. In Utah, for example, those wishing to purchase cannabis can use the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/alternative-to-cash-payments-for-cannabis-now-available-in-utah\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hypur App<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Although Utah has still legalized cannabis for medical use only, when it comes to payment methods, they\u2019re breaking ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Owning and operating cannabis businesses is a challenge. Even if cannabis has been fully legalized in your state, without full federal support, there are a lot of struggles and issues that cannabis businesses are going to have to wrestle with, and those can be hard to solve. As we move forward, we hope that the government will put more systems in place to help these businesses thrive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Patterson, the former head of the Eaze cannabis delivery company, has pleaded guilty to committing bank fraud while he was still active as CEO. Specifically, the allegations were that he conspired with at least two others\u2014Hamid Akhavan and Ruben Weigand\u2014to deceive banks into processing more than $100 million worth of credit and debit payments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":14104,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5339,255,257],"tags":[8988,1082,3789,2236,3436],"class_list":["post-14060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","category-politics","tag-cannabis-banking","tag-cannabis-industry","tag-finances","tag-fraud","tag-safe-banking-act"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why a Cannabis CEO Committed Bank Fraud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fraud is no stranger to the cannabis industry. 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