Aspiring attorney to be jailed for setting up fake law firms

Tampa resident Roberta Guedes, a law school graduate, was convicted of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 8:58 a.m. November 19, 2020
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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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. 

 

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