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Criminal

May 23, 2012

Former Irvine attorney sentenced for role in Ponzi scheme

An Irvine securities lawyer must spend more than seven years in prison and pay $25.5 million in restitution for her part in a Ponzi scheme, a federal judge ruled Monday afternoon.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - An Irvine securities lawyer who once practiced with Williams & Connolly LLP and Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP must spend more than seven years in prison and pay $25.5 million in restitution for her part in a Ponzi scheme, a federal judge ruled Monday afternoon.


Saying the defendant had committed "a very, very serious crime," U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford...

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