Article: INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ON SEPT. 28: OPERATOR OF MX FACTORS SENTENCED TO 100 YEARS IN PRISON FOR PONZI SCHEME THAT COST VICTIMS $39 MILLION

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for Central District Of Illinois issued the following press release:

In what is believed to be the longest sentence ever handed down in a white-collar case in this district, the mastermind of a Riverside-based Ponzi scheme that collected well over $60 million from hundreds of investors - and caused more than $39 million in losses - was sentenced today to 100 years in federal prison.

Richard Monroe Harkless, 65, who lived in Riverside when he ran the scheme through a company he called MX Factors from 2000 until late 2003, was sentenced this morning by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips in ...

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