Another accomplice of disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein will spend time behind bars for his role luring investors into a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.

The latest to fall is Michael Szafranski, sentenced Monday to 2½ years in prison for wire fraud conspiracy after presenting himself as an “independent verifier” while secretly working for Rothstein, whose 70-attorney Fort Lauderdale law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler collapsed when the fraud was uncovered.

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