4. Samuel Israel III and Daniel Marino
Prison sentences: 22 and 20 years, respectively
These two were behind the Bayou Group. In 1996 they set up Bayou Hedge Funds and reeled in $300 million from investors with the promise of $7.1 billion in return. That never happened, though, as they used the money for their own personal use. This puts them fairly high up on our list of 10 high profile white collar criminals.