BOSTON – A Georgia man was sentenced yesterday in federal
district court in Boston for his role in a bogus advance fee Jamaican lottery
scheme in which victims were defrauded of more than $1 million.
Peter Anthony Chin Jr., 35, of Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced
by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 57 months in prison, two
years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,139,828 in restitution. In
December 2018, Chin pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail
and wire fraud.
From 2012 to 2017, Chin was part of a scheme that targeted
elderly individuals throughout the United States, including Massachusetts. The
victms were informed via phone, email and mail that they had won millions of
dollars in a lottery, but that they had to pay the taxes on their purported
winnings before the funds could be released. Chin’s co-conspirators directed
the victims to mail or wire funds to Chin or to his associates. Chin kept a
portion of the funds for himself and then distributed the rest as directed by
his co-conspirators, including sending significant amounts to Jamaica.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Joseph R.
Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Boston Field Division; Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland
Security Investigations in Boston; and Joseph W. Cronin, Inspector in Charge of
the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Field Division, made the
announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra S. Bower of Lelling’s
Criminal Division prosecuted the case.
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