Disbarred attorney Guy Jean-Pierre completed his jail term Tuesday morning in Queens only to be greeted and arrested for money laundering in connection with a pump-and-dump stock scheme.

Jean-Pierre, who authorities say has made a career of issuing bogus opinion letters that allowed purveyors of micro-cap stocks to skirt securities laws, was taken into custody for allegedly agreeing to launder money for a stock scheme based on the booming marijuana business in Colorado.

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