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Jamaican man sentenced to 7 years in US jail for lottery fraud scheme

By Kimone Witter    
 
A 40-year-old Jamaican man was on Monday sentenced to seven years imprisonment in Charlotte, North Carolina for operating a Jamaica-based fraudulent lottery scheme.
 
Antony Linton Stewart was also ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution.
 
On August 3, 2023, Stewart pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in the Western District of North Carolina.
 
According to court documents, and as part of his plea, Stewart acknowledged that from approximately 2010 through to at least August 2016, he led a lottery fraud scheme in which he and his co-conspirators targeted elderly victims in the United States.


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