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Following a plea agreement, Bradley Mascho is sentenced for his role in defrauding investors of more than $20 million.

Over a nine-year period, he allegedly defrauded clients of more than $2.1 million.

A barred and terminated former Securities America advisor’s conduct was “appalling, reprehensible and evil,” according to a federal judge.

The once high-profile RIA owner ran a $20 million Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors said.

The Ladenburg IBD failed to spot the red flags of a barred ex-advisor who later pleaded guilty to fraud, former clients say.

The advisor and his alleged co-conspirators made $5 million in illicit profits off misappropriated information, according to prosecutors.

Forty-seven investors, some over the age of 63, were among the victims.

Thomas Buck misled clients in order to charge them excessive commissions, according to federal prosecutors.

The former broker bilked more than a dozen former clients over an eight-year period, prosecutors said.

Royal Alliance must pay more than $2.5 million to one ex-client while dealing with charges against the firm and a former rep by William Galvin’s office.

Former Securities America rep Hector May carried out a 20-year scam through his outside RIA, according to prosecutors

The cases are among a series of such obstacles UBS has faced since the start of the financial crisis, including a $1.5 billion fine in 2012 for rigging the Libor benchmark.

Douglas P. Simanski allegedly told clients he would invest their money in a “tax-free,” fixed-rate investment, a rental car company and a coal mining firm.

Ex-advisor Dawn Bennett, who allegedly dabbled in voodoo-type witchcraft, was found guilty by a federal jury of defrauding investors.

Darrell Smith stole $2.4 million from his clients to fund bio-energy companies.

Melvin Leonard Wimmer Jr. is said to have bilked clients out of their retirement savings.

The case offers a new look at decisions made inside one of the nation’s largest home lenders before the financial crisis, and the evidence that executives saw of mounting trouble.

The barred onetime Questar Capital and Woodbury Financial rep had pleaded guilty to the scam, which he says stemmed from a gambling addiction.

Vitaly Korchevsky was convicted of pocketing at least $14 million by trading securities on information he gleaned from press releases stolen by Ukrainian hackers before they were released publicly.

Scott Wolas assumed other people’s names to pose as a real estate agent, bartender, retired paleontologist and a registered rep, investigators say.