A Montreal man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Pennsylvania judge for operating a telemarketing scheme that defrauded American seniors of millions of dollars.
Ari Tietolman, 50, was extradited from Canada to the United States last year and pleaded guilty in January to three counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering.
Tietolman ran his “massive scheme” from Montreal between 2005 and 2014, according to a Tuesday news release from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The attorney’s office said Tietolman’s team of telemarketers sold worthless or non-existent fraud protection services, prescription drug discount cards and discounted legal services to tens of thousands of U.S. seniors.
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“Ari Tietolman directed an almost decade-long scheme that scammed seniors out of millions of their hard-earned dollars,” said U.S. Attorney Jacqueline …