The dude could haved faced more prison time than Taliban John Walker Lindh.
Exactly. A case of prosecutorial over-reach by an ambitious US Attorney and power-mad DoJ. This is the same DoJ that declined to prosecute Jon Corzine for mis-appropriating hundreds of million dollars in customer money in the MF Global scam. I work in the brokerage industry and have seen people go to jail for only mis-appropriating THOUSANDS of dollars.