Boy Band Creator sentenced to 25 years

...no, not for being responsible for horrible music. No, not for exploiting young men. No, not for introducing Justin Timberlake to the world. Something much less....horrific, if you will.

Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.

It was the maximum sentence the boy band mogul could receive for allegedly swindling some $300 million from investors and banks since the early 1980s.