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Felon Who Misrepresented Himself to Coral Springs, Fla., Energy Firm Arrested.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By Patrick Danner, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 19--Consolidated Energy's hunt for $95 million to enter the mining business led the Coral Springs company to Ronald J. Goldberg, who held himself out as principal of a 19-year-old Wall Street merchant bank.

In reality, Goldberg is a felon who spent a decade in federal prison before his release last August. He's been convicted three times, including in 1992 in Miami for bank fraud, transportation of stolen securities and attempted escape from prison. While locked up, he was convicted of forging the signature of a U.S. magistrate judge.

Goldberg, 45, was arrested again Thursday, caught in a Manhattan FBI sting. But not before some of Consolidated's stock --...

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