International fraud scheme netted more than $137M

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:30 p.m. July 24, 2013
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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TAMPA — A federal judge sentenced an Odessa man and two partners from England to prison for bilking investors out of more than $137 million in an international investment scheme that spanned continents and ensnared lawyers.

 

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