STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with another fraudster facing prison.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Bernard Madoff got 150 years in prison. Now, federal prosecutors would like 145 for Marc Dreier. He's the Ivy League lawyer whose career came crashing down last year. Federal authorities charged him with running a fraud scheme involving fake promissory notes. In May, Mr. Dreier admitted to bilking investors of more than $400 million, which sounds small compared to Bernard Madoff's haul. But prosecutors still want him to spend the rest of his life in prison, and he's due to be sentenced on Monday.
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence a prominent Manhattan lawyer to 145 years in prison, after he admitted to defrauding hedge funds of more than $400 million. Marc Dreier is to be sentenced on Monday. He is free on bail until his sentencing.