February 26, 2024
A man who pled guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that targeted elderly victims will be resentenced after prosecutors agreed to dismiss an aggravated identity theft count following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the type of conduct that triggers the identity theft statute.
October 12, 2022
A California man who pled guilty to scamming at least 10 elderly victims in a $14 million Ponzi scheme was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison for conduct a judge called "cruel, callous and self-absorbed."