Woman Gets Prison in Bus Shelter Ad Scheme
Karen LeRoyer, the wife of Metro Display Advertising founder Jean Claude LeRoyer, has been sentenced to five months in prison for her role in an investment scheme which raised nearly $47 million before collapsing in 1991.
U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler rejected pleas by the LeRoyers that sending Karen LeRoyer of Fountain Valley to prison would leave no one to care for the couple’s 8-year-old daughter.
Jean Claude LeRoyer is expected to surrender next week to begin serving his 46-month prison sentence for running the bus-shelter advertising scheme. His wife, who pleaded guilty to tax fraud, will also receive five months’ probation, according to Greg Weingart, assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
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