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Connery accused of withholding funds
Pearlman, who helped create the boy bands Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC, pleaded guilty in March to fleecing investors and banks out of millions of dollars over a period of 25 years.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy, one count of money laundering and one count of making a false claim in a bankruptcy.
TMZ.com said the judge who sentenced him gave him the maximum sentence.