It’s taken more than six years, but investment manager Martin Armstrong will finally get his day in court on Oct. 24. Back in 1999, Armstrong was working at his firm, Princeton Economics International, when he was indicted on charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of defrauding Japanese investors out of US$700 million. He was thrown in jail the next year on contempt charges by a judge in a related civil suit after failing to turn over some US$15 million in assets, which Armstrong says he didn’t have. According to Bloomberg News, the investment manager has appealed those charges now for the fourth time. If convicted in the criminal case, Bloomberg News reports, it is not clear whether he will be credited for time served.