July 27, 2016
The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a second appeal by a former lawyer serving 15 years and eight months in prison for a $43 million penny stock manipulation scheme, saying he hadn't shown that forfeiting certain assets left him unable to hire an attorney.
October 29, 2010
A securities attorney and a former stockbroker have each been sentenced to more than a decade in prison and must hand over more than $43 million in forfeited proceeds for participating in a massive pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme, federal prosecutors said Friday.