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Do we want the feds going hard after the "pampered wives of Ponzi schemers"?

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is prompted by this article coming from the Sun Sentinel, which is headlined "Pampered wives of Ponzi schemers: Can they be charged with crimes too?".  The piece discusses today's upcoming sentencing of one "ponzi wife," and here is how it starts: They once could be found at the sides of their charming, wealthy husbands -- leading lives of privilege and glamour. Now those years of comfortably basking in money are gone, replaced by lawyers' questions and the scorn of former friends.  Their posh lives had been built on their husbands' schemes. Call them "The Real Housewives of South Florida Ponzi Schemers."  Among them is mother Victoria Meisner, whose husband, Michael, masterminded a $37 million fraud...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).