Adviser Who Spent Funds Like ‘Lottery Winner’ Gets 17 Years – Law Blog – WSJ Posted On August 5, 2013Reading Time: < 1 minutes. The “public trust”/living high-on-the-hog aspect —- Adviser Who Spent Funds Like ‘Lottery Winner’ Gets 17 Years – Law Blog – WSJ — will always inflate the way a court looks at “loss” under the Sentencing Guidelines.