Nikesh Ajay Patel, 40, a man with a history of elaborate financial schemes, has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) while he was on pretrial release for a separate $179 million fraud case in Chicago. This new sentence will be served consecutively to the 25-year sentence he is already serving, effectively putting him behind bars for over five decades. Patel’s ex-wife, Trisha Patel, 41, was also sentenced to 51 months in prison for her role in a related scheme. Both are required to pay restitution to the USDA and other financial i…
