New York attorney Charles Bennett was ordered to serve five years in prison Thursday for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded some 30 friends and family members for more than $5 million.
Eighteen months after he jumped into the Hudson River after leaving a lengthy suicide note that revealed his crimes, a tearful Bennett listened to several of his victims excoriate him for betrayals that wrecked their finances—and then turned to face them.
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