Lickiss was sentenced to nine years after a wire-fraud and money-laundering plea.

A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment. The date he must report to prison is not judgment day. In mid-September 2026, around Sept. 16–17, a federal judge in Oakland sentenced Edwin Lickiss Jr., also reported as Mike Lickiss, 78, a Danville, California financial adviser, to nine years in prison after a guilty plea to wire fraud and money laundering in a decades-long Ponzi scheme. He must report to federal prison by Oct. 30, 2026.

Coverage of the plea described nonexistent bonds, and the use of new investor funds to pay earlier investors and personal expenses. Those are plea admissions as reported. They are the conduct behind the wire-fraud and money-laundering counts he already admitted. They are not new counts added when the court imposed the nine years. The sentence was reported around Sept. 16–17, 2026.

Reporting described about 93 investors. Losses were reported in a range of about $9.5 million to $12 million, depending on the outlet. That range is what the coverage reported. It is not a single restitution figure. The Oct. 30, 2026 date is when he must report to federal prison. A report date is the day he must surrender after the sentence. It is not the day the judgment was entered, and it is not a second sentence.