Michael Oppenheim, an ex JP Morgan broker, was sentenced to five years after stealing over $20 million of his client’s money. At one point, Oppenheim was a successful broker managing 500 clients with combined assets of $90 million. Oppenheim is now claiming, according to an Investment News article, that his brain was ‘hijacked’ by a sports gambling addiction. The U.S. District judge presiding over the case gave him five years, instead of the ten years the prosecutors requested. Oppenheim pleaded guilty in November 2015.

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