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Englewood Cliffs Man Gets 14 Years In Fed Pen For $7.8M Law Firm Swindle, Huge Cocaine Deal Englewood Cliffs Man Gets 14 Years In Fed Pen For $7.8M Law Firm Swindle, Huge Cocaine Deal
Englewood Cliffs Man Gets 14 Years In Fed Pen For $7.8M Law Firm Swindle, Huge Cocaine Deal An Englewood Cliffs man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Friday for a pair of high-priced schemes – one to steal $7.8 million from two high-powered law firms where his wife was a partner and another to traffic more than 44 pounds of cocaine. Both Melvin Feliz, 54, and Keila Ravelo, 55, previously admitted that they’d formed two limited liability companies that purported to provide litigation support for Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Hunton & Williams -- but, in fact, didn't. Ravelo, who’d been a partner with both firms, approved invoices submitted by her husband. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood Cliffs Attorney Gets 5 Years Federal Time For Conning Partners Out Of $7,800,000 Englewood Cliffs Attorney Gets 5 Years Federal Time For Conning Partners Out Of $7,800,000
Englewood Cliffs Attorney Gets 5 Years Federal Time For Conning Partners Out Of $7,800,000 A lawyer from Englewood Cliffs was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Wednesday -- a year to the day that she admitted creating bogus businesses with her husband to steal $7.8 million from two high-powered law firms where she'd been a partner. Keila Ravelo, 52, will have to serve just about all of her sentence; there's no parole in the federal prison system. A year ago, Ravelo took a deal offered by the government two weeks before her trial was supposed to begin, pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion. Her lawyer blamed it all on Ravelo's now-estranged…

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by Jerry DeMarco