A securities fraud conviction that was dismissed because a judge said the government failed to prove venue in Brooklyn has been restored by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

In a decision that may mean prison instead of probation for defendant Kristofor Lange, the court said that “it was enough” that other people committed illegal acts in the Eastern District and that Lange and a codefendant “aided and abetted the fraudulent scheme.”

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