The men earned $4.7 million in illicit profits from their scheme, the Government said.

The Iamonte clan started to invest their illicit profits in the area.

The gang operated a number of scams in order to generate their illicit profit.

He was a graduate of a medical school who had chucked his career, then taken it up again, for illicit profit.

A few years ago, officials said, such an offer would have been viewed as a prized promotion with prospects of huge illicit profits.

I tried to make an illicit profit in Marsland speculation and lost everything.

He devoted a proportion of his illicit profits to building an orphanage.

They sell their one- and two-family homes to people who may need extra income to pay the mortgage or are interested in illicit profit.

While there have been a few big fish, most sold their futures for $20,000 to $50,000 of illicit profits.

The judge found they made an illicit profit of 48.4 million francs (£6.2 million).