Payday loan mogul Scott Tucker can't pay for his own defense attorneys

Scott Tucker, a Leawood businessman accused of running a $2 billion payday loan operation that preyed on 4.5 million consumers, now can’t pay for attorneys in a federal criminal case against him.

A federal regulator last year asked a judge to freeze Tucker’s assets. In the weeks and months that followed, recently unsealed documents show, Tucker wired millions of dollars to attorneys, bought a new Ferrari and spent thousands on private jets.

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