Federal regulators fined the former chief executive of a North Lauderdale bank $10,000 for engaging in unsafe banking practices, which included hiring a convicted tax cheat and giving out a sweetheart loan to a bank insider.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency did not require Blas Betancourt to admit any wrongdoing and allowed the executive to continue working in the banking industry.

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