(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Los Angeles Field Office) LOS ANGELES-Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a Calabasas firm at the center of a scam that cost victims approximately $135 million were sentenced today, with one man being ordered to serve nine years, and the other a decade, in federal prison. Joel Barry Gillis, 75, of Woodland Hills, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison, and Edward Wishner, 77, also of Woodland Hills, was sentenced to 108 months in prison in relation to a 13-year-long scheme they operated through their company, Nationwide Automated Systems, Inc. (NASI). Gillis and Wishner used NASI...
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