Court sentences con man who bilked aged of $20M

A man who defrauded elderly victims out of more than $20 million was sentenced Monday in Las Vegas to about seven years in prison, according to the Department of Justice.

U.S. District Judge Jennifer A.

Dorsey sentenced the Las Vegas man, 58-year-old Glen Burke, and ordered him to pay more than $2.7 million in restitution, reflecting the loss in one of Burke’s scams, the department said in a statement Monday.

The department said Burke’s operations included mass-mailing fraud schemes that misled victims into believing that they had won large cash prizes. He then would mail solicitations using fake names that looked like they came from law firms or financial institutions, asking victims to pay a fee to claim their winnings.

Burke’s co-defendant, 52-yearold Michael Rossi, of Las Vegas, also pleaded guilty in connection with one of Burke’s scams. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 25.