Aspiring attorney to be jailed for setting up fake law firms

TAMPA — Roberta Guedes has been sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison for a scheme in which she fraudulently posed and practiced as a licensed attorney. She was also ordered by Senior U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. to pay $14,318 in restitution to victims. 

According to a press release, Guedes, 41, graduated from Stetson University College of Law but twice failed to pass the Florida Bar exam and never obtained a license to practice law in the state.