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Friends Academy scammer gets 12 years in $4.5M scheme

Saying his crime was an "egregious and shocking betrayal of trust," a federal judge sentenced a former Garden City stockbroker to 12 years and 7 months in prison Wednesday for swindling $4.5 million from clients, including the parents of some of his daughters' classmates at Friends Academy in Locust Valley.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Bianco also ordered the former broker, Steven Meszaros,...

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