Cuthill will ask Bankruptcy Court Judge Arthur B. Briskman to approve an $189,000 settlement with the Zylka family, Cuthill's office confirms to GlobeSt.com.

Zylka remains in a New York jail awaiting sentence for his part in allegedly stealing $27.7 million of the missing $214 million Evergreen took in from 2,203 global investors who thought they were putting their money into U.S. government mortgage-backed securities.

Zylka and his team of lawyers, accountants and brokers are accused of pulling off the second largest scam in Florida history, next only to the 1985 ESM Government Securities Fund fraud that bilked $315 million from institutions and government entities, according to Bankruptcy Court records.

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