Backstreet to backdoor: Scam gets boy band mogul 25 years

I only posted this because my sister's room was plastered with 'N Sync posters for far too long:

ORLANDO, Fla. - Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.

It was the maximum sentence the boy band mogul could receive for allegedly swindling some $300 million from investors and banks since the early 1980s.

He pleaded guilty in March to two counts of conspiracy and single counts of money laundering and presenting a false claim in bankruptcy court.

U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp noted that many victims were Pearlman's relatives, friends and retirees in their 70s or 80s who lost everything.

"The sympathy factor just doesn't run very high with the court," Sharp said.

http://omg.yahoo.com/boy-band-creator-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison/news/9263?nc

 

I wonder how the boy bands go over in PMITA prisons?

 

I hope he likes it that way.

 

Yep, that's yahoo's entertainment site.

 

Awesome.

 

I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you fuck me

Who you are
Where you're from
Don't care what you did
As long as you fuck me

 

Oh, hell, BYH. That's how I always sang the song anyway.

 

My heart only has room for one boy band ...

 

Poor Mr. Pearlman ...

 

What IJAG said. Well played.

 

Stevie Ray Vaughn is dead ... and we couldn't get Maurice Starr into a helicopter?