Ponzi schemer who pretended to be a barrister wins resentencing

Justice Clifton Hoeben 2021-02-16 1:14 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen | Melbourne

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A fraudster who robbed victims of $7.6 million by pretending to be a financial investor and barrister has had his jail sentence reduced from 16 years to 12, after a court of appeal heard his original sentence was “crushing” and did not reflect his guilty plea or lack of criminal record.

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