Peregrine Financial Group ex-CEO sentenced to 50 years in jail [View all]
Source: Reuters
Russell Wasendorf Sr., who admitted looting more than $100 million from broker Peregrine Financial Group in a scheme that shook confidence in the U.S. futures industry, was sentenced to 50 years behind bars on Thursday.
Wasendorf was ordered to pay $215.5 million in restitution.
The sentence came six months after Wasendorf, 64, botched a suicide attempt outside his now-defunct brokerage's $24-million headquarters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and confessed to bilking tens of thousands of customers over nearly 20 years.
Prosecutors argued that Wasendorf stole more than $215 million, using little more than a rented post office box, Photoshop and inkjet printers to fake bank statements and dupe regulators.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/31/peregrine-financial-jail-idUSL1N0B0B2420130131
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