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Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | RapidEye) The former head of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors. Elizabeth Ann Pierce was CEO of Quintillion, an Alaskan telecom company, when she lied to two investment firms in New York in order to raise $270 million to build a fiber network.

 

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