Former SEC lawyer sentenced to eight years in prison

Published April 25, 2010 4:00am ET



A former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer will spend the next eight years in prison for the role he played in a in a pump-and-dump stock scheme that earned him nearly $5 million.

Phillip Offill spent 15 years as an SEC lawyer chasing white-collar fraudsters before he went into private practice in Texas. He was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy charges in January by a federal jury in Alexandria.

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