OTHER NEWS - July 6, 1994

Real Estate Investment Pitch Man Sentenced: Morris English Jr., an investment con man blamed for at least $30 million in losses, was sentenced to 18 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian in Los Angeles. Prosecutors, who had sought a life sentence for English, said his Wellington Group real estate investment company was nothing but a fraud that had cheated some 1,500 people from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. English, 47, offered high returns on investments tied to real estate trust deeds. He sponsored his own financial advice program, “Executive Money,” on a Glendale radio station and pitched the schemes through seminars, print advertisements and promotional brochures.