He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.
Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later
married her after his wife divorced him.
In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast
the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton's controversial tax package through
the House of Representatives.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of
bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10
million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail
scams. He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison. After
serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and
remains on federal probation.
To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.