![]() ![]() “The chagrin and embarrassment in learning that it was executed by a lone Aussie vigilante turned the tables on everything the Yanks thought they knew about bank jobs.” “Early news reports were that the bank was hit by an organized crime syndicate because of the professionalism that was involved,” he said. GODDAMN RIGHT I AM! /XHalN2E4IUĭonaldson says his “crime days are behind” him but he’s not ashamed of his past. I was released from US PRISON 6 weeks ago after completing 66 months. ![]() “God damn right I am.” ‘As an Australian … it’s very cool to rob an American bank’ “I planned and executed a Promethean bank heist for the express purpose of redistributing corrupt bank case to the poor and homeless, and delivered that cash accordingly,” Donaldson told. He has since returned to Melbourne where he now resides. He served a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence before being released and deported to Sydney on July 23 this year. It took just 50 minutes of deliberations for the jury to find Donaldson guilty. “I felt compelled to spank the bank,” Donaldson told. “He certainly sought to benefit himself in this criminal scheme,” Shugart said.ĭonaldson represented himself at his 2013 trial and told the jury he carried out the heist to help the homeless and to protest banks that preyed on customers. The court also heard that Donaldson was staying in a “swanky” $347-a-night Salt Lake City hotel and was so well known there, staff new him by his alias, Doobie Zonks. People were peeled off ice-laden streets into warm beds because of what I did.”īut only $16,000 of the $140,750 was recovered and what happened to the rest has been disputed.ĭuring Donaldson’s 2013 trial, prosecutor Todd Shugart said that when the bank robber’s chauffeur-driven SUV was pulled over during his arrest, $11,000 was found in envelopes addressed to his siblings in Australia.ĭonaldson had lived in the US for 20 years as a green card holder at the time of the heist. “The typical response I received were hugs, shock, tears and gratitude. “I also gave to organizations like the Salvo’s and Volunteers of America.” I gave them what they asked for, and more.” “I approached homeless people on the street and asked them how much money they needed to change their lives. “I gave it all away, and then some,” he told. He claimed the heist “was about confiscating corrupt system cash and giving that cash to the poor.” He spent the next 22 days on the run until his arrest in Clinton, Utah, on January 22, 2013.Īccording to Donaldson, he didn’t rob the bank out of greed, or to fund a lavish lifestyle. On my way to redistribute to the poor & homeless… /BE5n8GQf8b Walking through the bank during the heist with…The Gait Of KONG! “I secured $140,750 without touching any of it, got away slower than grandma, and stayed away, donating the cash to the needy across three states.” “Staff did not know what happened until I was gone.” “I was in full view of all the moneychangers, without a single alarm being triggered,” Donaldson said. According to Donaldson, the heist lasted an extraordinary 90 minutes. The manager - who later needed psychiatric treatment - emptied out the bank’s safe and teller drawers and Donaldson walked away with $140,000 cash. He feigned a South African accent during the holdup in which he told staff that Mexican drug gang cartel members had placed bombs in the snow outside and would blow up the bank and then hunt down and kill the manager if $2 million was not handed over. In his first Australian interview since his July deportation, Donaldson, 45, told he was “God damn proud of what (he) did” in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on December 31, 2012.Īs revelers all over the globe prepared to ring in the New Year, Donaldson disguised himself in sunglasses and a cap, then walked into a bank to carry out a “lone wolf style” heist in the ski resort town. A convicted bank robber recently released from a US prison and deported to Australia has boasted about a heist he pulled off in which he “humiliated those who hate the poor.”Īuthor Corey Donaldson, from Macclesfield, Australia - who describes himself as “the Robin Hood bank robber” - has returned home after serving a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence in the US. ![]()
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