Goldmen is now inactive. Prosecutors said Winkler supervised all activities of A. S. Goldmen. He was charged with engaging in, directing and supervising the securities fraud and theft from investors in stocks sold by the firm. Winkler, who goes to trial in January on the fraud charges, already faced up to 25 years if convicted. If convicted of the conspiracy charge he could face up to 25 years in prison.
Solicitation is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
Her nicknames range from the obvious, Ice Princess, to Judge 232 - the number of years she gave to the head of a Jamaican drug gang, the Jheri Curls. As she sentenced nine members of the Wild Cowboys crack gang in 1995 she called them unfit to live before putting one of them away for 158 years. She once sentenced a paralysed drug dealer to 175 years for shooting a police officer in the arm.