Man gets 18 months for swindling friend out of $1.5 million in bogus Uphams Corner condo scheme
A federal judge on Monday sentenced Edwin Tavarez, 48, of Garfield, NJ to 18 months in prison for the way he got a longtime acquaintance in the old neighborhood to pay him more than $1.5 million over six years for a condo-development deal that never existed to feed a gambling addiction that included frequent trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. Tavarez had pleaded guilty to one
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