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A Jamaican man who reportedly used intake from a lottery scam he operated to purchase a new home in Jamaica and a vineyard in Argentina, was jailed for almost six years in relation to scamming an elderly American man of almost US$1.2 million.
Stieve Fernandez, a 35-year-old resident of Lucea, Hanover, was sentenced to 71 months in prison by US District Judge Kari A Dooley in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Friday.
Fernandez had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in February.
The charges emanated from a scam in which he and two others targeted an elderly man from Mystic in Connecticut, United States, defrauding a total of US$1,196,207 from him.
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A U.S. District Court judge in Bridgeport on Friday sentenced a man from Jamaica to nearly 6 years in federal prison for his role in a scam that defrauded an elderly Mystic resident of almost $1.2 million.
Judge Kari A. Dooley also ordered Stieve Fernandez, 35, to pay the full amount in restitution.
Fernandez in February pleaded guilty in Bridgeport to a conspiracy charge stemming from a lottery scam. He was accused of defrauding the Mystic resident by falsely claiming that the victim won the lottery or some sort of sweepstakes and had to pay taxes and other expenses tied to the winnings.
Lottery scammer gets prison for swindling $1.2 million from elderly Connecticut retiree
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The leader of a ring of Jamaican swindlers, whose victims included an elderly Mystic man who lost more than
$1 million, was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.
Federal prosecutors described 35-year old Stieve Fernandez, part of a flourishing, underground network of so-called lottery scammers in
Jamaica, as a “callous” thief. As is typical of the scammers, they said he looted the life savings of vulnerable senior citizens. He spent the money on a new home in
Jamaica and a vineyard in
Argentina.
Fenandez named two dogs he kept at the Argentine vineyard after the Mystic victim and his wife, bragging to an associate that “they were the people whose money had paid for them,” the prosecution said.
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