Meet the man who is $6.3 billion in debt [VIDEO]  Jerome Kerviel
a former trader at Societe General owes more money than any
other person in the world.  Jerome was a junior trader at the
bank that can trace its lineage back to 1864 where its
authorization decree was signed by Napoleon the Third. He was
convicted of creating fictitious trades to hide €50billion ($6.4
billion) in unauthorized trades during late 2007 and early
2008. Societe General closed out the unauthorized positions in
January 2008, but in doing so lost over $6 billion. The bank has
been pursuing Jerome for those losses through the French courts.
Kerviel’s future is uncertain. He has been convicted in Paris,
and a recent appeal has not gone well. The written judgment
stated: “Jerome Kerviel was the sole creator, inventor and user
of a fraudulent system that caused these damages to Societe
Generale,”  As well as facing a three-year jail
sentence, Kerviel’s appeal effort to overturn the original 2010
ruling has failed, meaning that he must pay