Former financial advisor, Travis Wetzel, was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution to a former client. Wetzel was first charged in May of last year with 24 counts of wire fraud and money laundering after he allegedly transferred money from a client’s account into his own, without the knowledge or permission of the client. Over a 26 month span, Wetzel used his position as the branch manager at Research Financial Strategies to embezzle $1,282,224 from his client’s annuity account.

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