A brazen Westchester
NY swindler, who was audacious enough to
cook up a Ponzi scheme while out on bail awaiting sentencing for his earlier
penny-stock shenanigans, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for
cheating dozens of families out of $12 million. Anthony John Johnson of
Cortlandt Manor, NY, was already serving 18 months for an earlier pump-and-dump
scheme when he was sentenced by Brooklyn federal judge Eric Vitaliano
yesterday.
Johnson turned himself in for the Ponzi scheme last year
after burned investors started knocking down his door demanding their money
back. The serial swindler told
authorities he was worried about his safety. Federal prosecutors said Johnson, 42, ended up defrauding 72
families from around the world, including Australia and China.
Last year, The Post reported that his scam reached the likes
of Miami Heat’s Michael Millar, former glam-rock drummer Patrick Seacor and
Quaker Oats heir Tim Hower….
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