A Texas attorney will be spending the next 25 years of his life in a federal prison for taking part in an international money laundering conspiracy that defrauded lawyers and law firms across the nation out of more than $8.8 million, under a sentence handed down in a federal court in Tampa, Florida.
U.S. District Chief Judge Steven Merryday of the Middle District of Florida recently sentenced 52-year-old Perry Don Cortese of Little River, Texas, to prison for conspiracy to commit international money laundering and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
