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Public Defender Handling Economist's Appeal
posted 12:15 pm Wed August 27, 2008 - Charleston, S.C.
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(AP) -- The federal public defender for South Carolina will handle the court appeal of Al Parish, the former college professor convicted of swindling hundreds of investors out of $66 million.
Parish is an economist who once taught at Charleston Southern.
He filed a financial affidavit last week seeking help in appealing his federal 24-year prison sentence.
Parish was also ordered to repay the money he took from investors.
Authorities say he spent the money on clothes, paintings, diamond-studded pens and guitars once owned by rock stars like Jimi Hendrix.
An order filed this week in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., assigns the Parish appeal to the public defender.
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