Arlington businessman gets 40 years for bilking investors in digital marketing scheme
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 hr ago Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jun. 9 FORT WORTH An Arlington businessman has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for engaging in a fraudulent digital marketing investment scheme that bilked investors, many of them elderly residents, out of millions of dollars.
Richard Gregory Tilford was sentenced Wednesday in Collin County.
Tilford also got 10 years on each of six counts of selling unregistered securities and 10 years on each of six counts of acting as a registered dealer. The sentences will be served concurrently.
A former McKinney pastor and a local radio personality also have been sentenced to prison in the case.