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http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_24729106/ohio-seeks-41-years-navy-vets-charity-scammer
CLEVELANDA mysterious figure convicted of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud could spend the rest of his life in prison.
The defendant, who identifies himself as 67-year-old Bobby Thompson but who authorities say is actually Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody, faces sentencing Monday.
The Ohio attorney general's office, which handled his trial, asked the judge for a sentence of 41 years in prison and a fine of $6.3 million........
The fraud occurred in 41 states, according to trial testimony, and Ohio took the lead, indicting Thompson in 2010. He disappeared for nearly two years and was arrested last year in Portland, Ore.
He was charged with looting the United States Navy Veterans Association, a charity he ran in Tampa, Fla.
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CLEVELANDA mysterious figure convicted of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud could spend the rest of his life in prison.
The defendant, who identifies himself as 67-year-old Bobby Thompson but who authorities say is actually Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody, faces sentencing Monday.
The Ohio attorney general's office, which handled his trial, asked the judge for a sentence of 41 years in prison and a fine of $6.3 million........
The fraud occurred in 41 states, according to trial testimony, and Ohio took the lead, indicting Thompson in 2010. He disappeared for nearly two years and was arrested last year in Portland, Ore.
He was charged with looting the United States Navy Veterans Association, a charity he ran in Tampa, Fla.
More at link.....