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A Venezuelan accountant was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months in federal prison for helping to cover up a Connecticut-based pyramid scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars from a pension fund for Venezuela's state oil workers, The Associated Press reports.
Juan Carlos Guillen Zerpa admitted that he was paid to falsify a document on behalf of Francisco Illarramendi, a Venezuelan-American financier who used unregistered hedge funds in Stamford, as cover for one of the biggest frauds in state history.
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