A disbarred attorney in Florida, who once practised in Fort Lauderdale and Tallahassee, has been sentenced to a 14-year prison term by a federal judge. Phillip Howard, aged 62, had earlier entered a guilty plea to charges of racketeering related to his involvement in a criminal scam to swindle his clients out of funds stemming from an NFL class-action lawsuit.
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