Omar Amanat, the embattled tech-industry socialite who married a model and helped produce some of the "Twilight" films, boasts on his website that an academic centre once called him one of the world's most influential Muslims.

Now, a Manhattan jury is set to decide if Amanat's resume also includes fraud.

A father of six, Amanat faces years in prison if he's convicted.

Federal prosecutors claim the New York native engaged in a complex scheme to hide disastrous trading losses at Enable Invest, a fund run by his brother, during the financial crisis. A father of six, Amanat faces years in prison if he's convicted. He has denied wrongdoing. His lawyer, Randall Jackson, declined to comment.

The trial is likely to take jurors into the two worlds straddled by Amanat, one in which he glided among the rich and powerful while in the other, prosecutors claim, he perpetrated a series of small-time cons, desperate to stay afloat.