Tag: sentenced
West Warwick man jailed 8 years for running Ponzi scheme
PROVIDENCE – A West Warwick man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for conducting a decadeslong Ponzi scheme that defrauded millions of...
Former used car dealer sentenced 5 years for bank fraud
PROVIDENCE – A former Massachusetts used car dealer was sentenced to five years in federal prison for leading a scheme that defrauded financial institutions...
East Greenwich woman sentenced to 70 months in stolen valor case
PROVIDENCE – An East Greenwich woman who admitted to fraudulently claiming to be a U.S. Marine Corps veteran with lung cancer who falsely accepted...
Woonsocket building arsonist gets 5 years in federal prison
WOONSOCKET – A man indicted in December 2019 on a charge of arson for allegedly breaking into a mill-type building and setting fires in...
4 sentenced in check-cashing scheme exploiting R.I. homeless people
PROVIDENCE – Four Georgia men were sentenced to federal prison for running a scheme in which homeless and transient individuals found around the city...
Mass. man to serve 5 years in prison for manufacturing ghost...
PROVIDENCE – A Roxbury, Mass., man was sentenced to serve five years in state prison for manufacturing ghost guns inside a city apartment in...
Woonsocket businessman sentenced for defrauding IRS of $2.8M
PROVIDENCE – A Woonsocket business owner was sentenced Thursday to probation and jail time his role in defrauding the IRS of $2.8 million, U.S....
R.I. man sentenced for role in email fraud scheme
PROVIDENCE – A 33-year-old Warwick man previously convicted for operating an illegal money transmitting business, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to one year...
Pawtucket woman sentenced to 2 years in prison for embezzling scheme
PROVIDENCE – A Pawtucket woman was sentenced to two years in federal prison for her her scheme to defraud her employer, an auto body...
Portsmouth woman sentenced for $1M embezzlement, tax fraud
BOSTON – A Portsmouth woman was sentenced Tuesday for embezzling more than $1 million from her employer and failing to pay $261,000 in taxes...
