Telemarketer gets 9 years, $4.6 million fine

(February 14, 2011) -- Judge Gary A. Feess sentenced John Bezeredi of Vancouver, Canada to serve nine years in prison and pay $4.6 million in restitution for targeting over 4,500 senior citizens in a telemarketing operation. The defendant pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 2009 after the United States extradited him from Canada....

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