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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jan 5, 2018, 01:35 AM Jan 2018

Fake millionaire tycoon gets prison for online dating scam

NEW YORK — A man who posed along the East Coast as a millionaire oil tycoon to scam women on internet dating sites out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced on Thursday to nearly four years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain described John Edward Taylor as sick and dangerous as she ordered him to serve three years and 10 months in prison in addition to 14 months he served after a related Virginia conviction.

The judge said 16 of Taylor’s two dozen victims from New York to Atlanta lost from several hundred dollars to more than $50,000 after encountering his “quest for money, respect, admiration and control.” She said some victims, who lost a total of more than $290,000, were left financially ruined while others had credit ratings ruined or were left suffering from fear, depression, anxiety and concern for their personal safety.

The scam ended after a married couple who met Taylor at a Philadelphia Phillies game they attended with their children on April 25, 2015, reported him to the FBI.

Read more: http://www.caller.com/story/news/nation/2018/01/04/fake-millionaire-tycoon-gets-prison-online-dating-scam/1006258001/

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Fake millionaire tycoon gets prison for online dating scam (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2018 OP
some victims ... were left financially ruined - and he got less than 4 years for that. n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2018 #1
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