CENTRAL ISLIP – Consumers who invested in bogus securities as part of a $30 million scam orchestrated by a man now incarcerated for fraud are entitled to remuneration as if they had put their money in actual securities, a federal judge has ruled.

Eastern District Judge Thomas C. Platt ruled that 13 claimants were entitled to a total of nearly $3 million from the Securities Investors Protection Corp. (SIPC) as victims in a 17-year scheme conducted by William Goren.