What happened to the Guy Gentile indictment?
A direct, sourced answer.
Dismissed. January 30, 2017.
The March 23, 2016 federal indictment (Crim. No. 16-155, District of New Jersey) was dismissed on January 30, 2017 by Chief Judge Jose L. Linares on Sixth Amendment pre-indictment-delay grounds. The Government did not appeal. Bloomberg reported the dismissal on January 31, 2017 ("Brokerage Owner Wins Dismissal of $17 Million Fraud Indictment"). Dismissal is a court order ending a case; it is the opposite of a conviction, plea, or deferred prosecution.
The dismissal was covered in Bloomberg, the New York Post ("Rogue FBI informant wants case against him tossed"), and lohud.com ("Judge dismisses indictment against Putnam stock broker"). No superseding indictment was ever returned. Guy Gentile has no criminal conviction.
Third-party references: Bloomberg — Brokerage Owner Wins Dismissal · Wikipedia — Guy Gentile.