Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads Guilty In NY Marc Dreier Case

Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads Guilty In NY Marc Dreier Case - 11/9/2009

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Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads Guilty In NY Marc Dreier Case
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CBS News. November 9, 2009
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EXCERPT: A former lawyer with the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a fraud carried out by a prominent Manhattan lawyer. The lawyer, Robert Miller, entered the plea to conspiracy and securities fraud charges in federal court in Manhattan on Monday. Miller admitted helping Marc Dreier conspire to sell more than $44 million in fictitious securities to hedge funds in 2006 and 2007. Dreier is serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to federal charges. He admitted to defrauding hedge funds of more than $400 million. Prosecutors cited the privileged education and his comfortable upbringing as they urged the maximum sentence for 59-year-old Marc Dreier. His lawyer, Gerald Shargel, said a sentence of between 10 and 12 1/2 years in prison was appropriate. "Dreier could have pursued a rewarding and productive life as a lawyer, serving clients and the law, with compensation in the top few percent of the general population," prosecutors said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. "Instead, Dreier decided to seek vast personal riches and prestige through a life of fraud and through dishonor to his profession," they wrote. In a letter to the judge dated Tuesday and filed with the court Wednesday, Dreier said he suffers "every day from the shame and self-loathing and regret with which I will always have to live." He said his crimes were inexcusable. "I expect and deserve a significant prison sentence," he wrote.

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