
Hollywood actor sentenced to 20 years for mutli-million dollar Ponzi scheme
CNN
Zachary Horwitz, a small-time actor who admitted to operating a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Monday.
The Department of Justice said in a news release that Horowitz "raised at least $650 million with bogus claims that investor money would be used to acquire licensing rights to films that HBO and Netflix purportedly had agreed to distribute abroad."
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