California attorney sentenced to prison for scamming investors out of $8.7 million to finance lavish lifestyle

A Newport Beach attorney who admitted that she swindled investors out of $8.7 million in order to bankroll her lavish lifestyle and high-rolling gambling habit was sentenced Monday, May 5 to one year and nine months in federal prison.

A luxuriant lifestyle of high-end jewelry, luxury cars, a six-month stay at a opulent Las Vegas resort and millions of dollars in gambling losses — all financed on the back of unsuspecting well-heeled investors — ended with Sara Jacqueline King pleading guilty...