Reuters: Bankruptcy News: Peregrine Financial's ex-CEO faces sentencing on Jan. 31

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Peregrine Financial's ex-CEO faces sentencing on Jan. 31 Jan 14th 2013, 16:23 Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:23am EST Jan 14 (Reuters) - Peregrine Financial Group's former chief executive, who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $100 million from customers of his futures brokerage, will be sentenced on Jan. 31, according to court documents filed on Monday. faces a potential maximum sentence of 50 years in prison after pleading guilty in September to mail fraud, lying to regulators and embezzling customer money. Wasendorf has been awaiting sentencing in a jail in Iowa, where Peregrine Financial was based. The Jan. 31 hearing is in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wasendorf's life unraveled in July when he attempted to kill himself and confessed in a suicide note to bilking customers over nearly 20 years. Peregrine Financial, known as PFGBest, quickly collapsed and thousands of former customers are still missing money.

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