One half of Scottsdale’s high-flying, high-tech Bonnie and Clyde of insurance fraud received her sentence Wednesday, Oct. 7.

“I beg of you mercy,” Alexandra “Lexie” Gehrke told U.S. Judge Roslyn Silver.

Silver had some compassion – but still laid down a 15-and-a-half year sentence, roughly halfway between what Gehrke’s Atlanta-based attorney asked for and what the U.S. Attorney's Office advised.

Silver’s sentence includes a staggering $614 million in restitution.

Before receiving her mind-boggling punishment, the 39-year-old Scottsdale woman spoke publicly for the first time since federal agents arrested Gehrke and her husband, Jeffrey King, at Sky Harbor International Airport 15 months ago.

“I stand here before you with deep regret and shame,” Gehrke said, admitting to a $1 billion i

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