Ex Doral bank exec sentenced to 5 years for fraud
November 17, 2010
Former Doral Financial Corp (DRL.N) treasurer Mario Levis was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday on his conviction for a fraud that nearly crippled the Puerto Rican bank owned by his family. In April, a jury in U.S. District Court in New York found Levis guilty of securities fraud and wire fraud in a scheme prosecutors said ran from 2001 to 2005, causing what had been Puerto Rico's largest mortgage lender to look healthier than it was. As the scheme unraveled, Doral's stock price slid, wiping out $4 billion of market value, prosecutors said in charging Levis, 47, the former treasurer and senior executive vice president of the bank.
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Reuters
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