ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An investment fund manager from Tennessee has drawn a 14-year federal prison sentence for helping to orchestrate a $33 million Ponzi scheme that bilked more than two dozen investors in the United States, Germany and Costa Rica.

Paul Knight of Kodak, Tenn., was also ordered Wednesday to begin paying restitution to victims of a scam that netted at least $13.6 million between July 1999 to July 2001.

The 61-year-old Knight was convicted of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering in October 2008 along with Gail Eldridge of Marietta, Ga., and John Montana of New York. A fourth defendant, Melvyn Lyttle, of Aurora, Ill., was convicted in Buffalo in September.

Eldridge drew a 20-year sentence last month and Montana is to be sentenced Friday.