10 High Profile White Collar Criminals and Their Crime Cases in America

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4. Samuel Israel III and Daniel Marino

Prison sentences: 22 and 20 years, respectively

These two were behind the Bayou Group. In 1996 they set up Bayou Hedge Funds and reeled in $300 million from investors with the promise of $7.1 billion in return. That never happened, though, as they used the money for their own personal use. This puts them fairly high up on our list of 10 high profile white collar criminals.

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