A St. James man, who was extradited to the United States in May, was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for conspiring to run a Jamaica-based lottery scam that targeted elderly Americans.
According to court documents, Greg Warren Clarke, 30, conspired to operate a fraudulent scheme.
The United States Department of Justice said, from September 2013, through to August 2015, Clarke, working with co-conspirators, including Claude Anthony Shaw, called victims and falsely told them that they had won more than US$1 million in a lottery and needed to pay fees or taxes to claim their winnings.
They were subsequently instructed to send their money through wire transfers or the mail to Shaw and other individuals.
As part of the conspiracy, it said Clarke and Shaw discussed, over the phone and through cell phone text messages, plans to receive victims' money.
At Clarke's direction, Shaw received money from victims through wire transfers and the mail.
They also discussed arrangements for victims to send money to other individuals with whom Shaw worked.
Clarke then instructed Shaw to send the victims' money to Clarke in Jamaica, usually through wire transfers.
However, victims who sent money to Clarke and his co-conspirators never received any of the promised lottery winnings.
Shaw was sentenced in June 2017, to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to mail fraud in the U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale.
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