Tennessee’s Evolve Bank & Trust has fired its newly appointed CEO, Bob Hartheimer, after he was arrested in an FBI sting operation. Court documents seen by the Wall Street Journal on Friday revealed that Hartheimer, who had taken over as Evolve’s chief executive in August, was charged with “attempting to produce child pornography and sending sexually explicit material to a minor.”

According to the Investigators, Hartheimer believed he was chatting with a 15-year-old boy on the gay dating app Grindr, but the person on the other side was actually a law enforcement officer posing as a minor. Here’s what happened.

CEO charged with child pornography crimes

According to the affidavit, an undercover FBI agent acting as a 15-year-old boy started chatting with Hartheimer on the dating app on O

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