A 21-year-old man, Charles Stergios, was sentenced in US District Court in Maine to more than six years in prison for perpetrating an extensive Internet fraud scheme. He was ordered to pay nearly $118,000 in restitution to his victims. It seems that the federal prosecutor had tried to score Stergio a shorter amount of jail time, but Judge George Singal, who was not bound by the plea bargain agreement, decided on a harsher sentence on the grounds that he did not think that the defendant had sufficiently accepted responsibility
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