Ex-Poseidon exec gets 3-year sentence in securities fraud case
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Jaclyn Jaeger2022-04-05T22:03:00
Joseph Kostelecky, former executive VP of U.S. operations at Poseidon Concepts, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay approximately $406.2 million in restitution for perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently inflate the company’s reported revenue.
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