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Thomas James O'Neill, 55, had previously pleaded guilty to single felony counts of securities and wire fraud, charges that resulted from an extensive investigation into the former Piper Jaffray executive's trading from 1997 to 2001. O'Neill, long a prominent citizen of Butte, presented U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy with a quandary made even more perplexing by Friday's testimony by victims, O'Neill's family and a pair of financial experts who offered contrasting interpretations of the former broker's trades. On one hand, Molloy noted, O'Neill had the support of many Butte residents, who wrote letters in droves in support of the defendant. On the other, O'Neill had betrayed a fundamental trust to his clients, some of whom have known him since the first grade. O'Neill finally became such a polarizing figure in Butte that he left town. "I can't imagine anything worse than being shunned out of Butte," Molloy told O'Neill. O'Neill, once a well-to-do broker with more than $2.5 million in his personal accounts, now lives in Billings, where he works for the Forest Service at the minimum wage of $5.15 per hour.