My daddy was a bankrobber, he never hurt nobody

[Zyada]

I talk about my great-uncle here

Every family has black sheep. Here's mine

Mine was my youngest great-uncle. And he made sheep look smart. First, there was this case: The missing millionaire, wherein a millionaire “leaves town”, leaving control of his assets in an attorney’s care; said attorney then liquidates all of the assets and puts the money into his own accounts. My GU wasn’t the millionaire (that’s a different branch), nor was he the attorney. My GU was the notary public that signed off of the dubious papers. Uncle Artis (or is it Ardis?) disappears for a …

Short version is that he was a notary public, and helped an attorney friend get the wealth of the attorney’s client that disappeared about the same time. That wasn’t what put him in jail.

After a couple of years he and his friend decided went for extortion, which included ticks sent to their victims via US mail. The ticks didn’t survive the trip.