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Chicago Financial Advisory Marcus Boggs Gets Prison For Stealing $3 Million From Clients

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Marcus Boggs, a financial advisory for Chicago is heading to prison for stealing $3 million from clients.

Instead of investing it, he used it to run up credit cards and pay down his mortgage.

One of his victims was Shaine Sharp, a man wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in the Dixmoor Five case.

Sharp was innocent and got $5 milion in a settlement.

Boggs swooped in, told Sharp he would invest it, and ended up stealing $800,000.

Boggs was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

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