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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Ex-part owner of Minnesota Vikings gets over six years in cryptocurrency scam

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

A former part owner of the Minnesota Vikings who defrauded a short-lived professional football league known as the Alliance of American Football in a $700 million cryptocurrency scam was sentenced Monday to over six years in prison.

Reginald Fowler, 64, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to six years and three months in prison and was ordered to forfeit $740 million and pay restitution of $53 million.

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