A federal appeals court in Philadelphia grilled an attorney representing a convicted Ponzi schemer April 19 over his argument that a federal judge in New Jersey coerced his client into pleading guilty to a separate scam, tacking on two years to his existing 22-year prison sentence.
At a short oral argument in United States v. Weinstein before three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, New York lawyer Steven Yurowitz maintained that Eliyahu Weinstein was entitled to a new trial, and his sentence—handed down to him after admitting to selling fictitious shares in Facebook to unsuspecting investors—should be vacated.
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