ORLANDO, Fla.—Lou Pearlman, the man made famous for creating the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings. It...

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Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys, ’N Sync and the Massachusetts boy band LFO, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on four federal charges yesterday. But Judge G. Kendall Sharp in Orlando, Fla., said he would reduce the sentence...
The creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync received the maximum sentence possible despite pleas from his lawyer that 25 years would amount to a "sentence to death" for the 53-year-old. Over the course of 20 years, Pearlman persuaded...
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This report from the Orlando Sentinel of a high-profile white collar sentencing is sure to stir some buzz: Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman was sentenced this morning to 25 years in federal prison for running a lengthy, systematic con that...
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