Attorney Nicholas Panarella Jr. has lost his bid to clear his name now that a federal appeals court has ruled that his role in helping former state Sen. F. Joseph Loeper Jr. hide their financial relationship was, in fact, a crime.

Panarella pleaded guilty and has already finished serving his six-month prison term, but he claimed in the appeal that charges against him didn’t even add up to a crime. In any event, he said, even if the courts accepted the prosecution’s theory, there was never enough evidence to back it up.

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