Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday said they were withdrawing charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, leaving the former hedge fund manager to face commodities fraud and related conspiracy counts. Wire fraud is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, while the commodities fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
It wasn’t immediately clear why prosecutors dropped the wire-fraud charges less than a month before Phillips is set to go ...
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