Two imaginative men were sentenced in federal court Wednesday for swindling investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Out of their Marietta-based operation, the men duped investors by claiming, among other things, that actress Raquel Welch was the spokeswoman for a cosmetics company they owned. But that wasn't their most audacious assertion: They said they were working with the University of Minnesota to develop a tree species that grew faster. Patrick J. Soltis, 47, of Hoschton cooperated with the government and received a... read full review »