Investment chief gets 50 years for scheme

Updated May 24 2019 - 9:48am, first published 9:45am
Edwin Fujinaga has been sentenced to 50 years in a US prison for fraud.
Edwin Fujinaga has been sentenced to 50 years in a US prison for fraud.

The former head of a Tokyo and Las Vegas investment firm has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for bilking thousands of Japanese victims in what prosecutors called a $US1.5 billion ($A2.2 billion) international Ponzi scheme ranking among the largest-ever US fraud cases.

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