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\u00a0<\/strong>Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Continues To Represent Investors Who Suffered Losses as a result of Andrew Jacobus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Hamilton Jacobus (Jacobus), the ex-Florida investment adviser who pleaded guilty to running a $94M Ponzi-style scam<\/a>, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors contend that Jacobus defrauded at least 70 investors, including a number of Venezuelan nationals. Jacobus misappropriated investors\u2019 money for his own use while paying earlier investors with newer investors\u2019 funds\u00a0in Ponzi -like fashion. This investment scam, which ran for almost 20 years, involved Jacobus promising to place his victims\u2019 money in purportedly safe investments that generated high returns. Jacobus falsified documents and forged account statements to conceal his fraud.<\/p>\n

Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Broker Negligence Lawyers (investorlawyers.com<\/a>) represent those who were harmed in Jacobus\u2019 Ponzi fraud<\/a>\u00a0against the brokerage firms that enabled Jacobus\u2019 wrongful actions, typically because of their own negligence.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Continues To Represent Investors Who Suffered Losses as a result of Andrew Jacobus Andrew Hamilton Jacobus (Jacobus), the ex-Florida investment adviser who pleaded guilty to running a $94M Ponzi-style scam, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. 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