New Jersey federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced a finalized plea deal with Vladimir Eydelman, a former Morgan Stanley stockbroker charged last year in an alleged $5.6 million insider trading scheme involving law school grad and former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett managing clerk Steven Metro.

U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in Trenton said Eydelman pleaded guilty to counts of securities and tender-offer fraud, as well as one count of conspiracy. Eydelman, 43, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $5 million penalty on the fraud counts, and he must also forfeit any profits he received through insider trading, according to the federal prosecutor's office.

Eydelman is the second of three defendants to admit guilt in an insider trading case that also targets Metro, the former Simpson Thacher clerk alleged to be the initial source of tips about upcoming transactions. Metro has entered a not guilty plea and is scheduled to face trial starting in early February.