NEW YORK: A prominent lawyer who prosecutors say should spend 145 years behind bars for a giant fraud says envy of more successful colleagues and clients fueled a mid-life ambitious crusade to build prestige and wealth by stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.
"I lost my perspective and my moral grounding, and, really, in a sense, I just lost my mind," 59-year-old Marc Dreier told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in an unusually blunt letter made public Wednesday.
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