Melvyn I. Weiss, the attorney who led numerous class action-suits against insurers and other corporations, will serve 30 months in federal prison and pay more than $9 million in forfeiture and fines after pleading guilty to charges of racketeering.

Mr. Weiss was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty on April 2 to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge.

The 72 year-old attorney was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John F. Walter in Los Angeles for concealing secret payment arrangements that his firm, Milberg Weiss, arranged to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits.

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