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A Southern California insurance salesman has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in an investment scheme that bilked 140 people out of millions of dollars.

A Los Angeles businessman has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for selling uncertified aircraft manufacturing parts that were used to make Boeing 737 airplanes.

A Miami businessman who stole $126 million from hundreds of people across the country was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison Tuesday after a judge heard three hours of wrenching, often tearful testimony from eight victims.

Three Beijing men have been sentenced to federal prison for shipping or trying to ship restricted technology from Los Angeles to China.

The convicted swindler begins to serve a 150-year sentence for his crimes.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., late morning Tuesday — the institution where he will begin a 150-year sentence.

A former HealthSouth Corp. finance chief has been ordered to spend three months in federal prison for his role in the $2.6 billion financial fraud that nearly wrecked the company.