$750K Too High A Price For Con Man In Attempt To Buy His Way Out Of Prison

In Rockland County, New York, The Journal News reports:

• A 40-year-old Pomona man who funded his philanthropy by ripping off 26 people for $2.13 million was sentenced to state prison yesterday after failing on his April promise to make a $750,000 down payment to his victims. Acting New York State Supreme Court Judge Catherine Bartlett showed little leniency to Gregg Brie when sentencing him to three to nine years in prison on his April guilty plea to second-degree grand larceny. When pleading guilty April 16, Brie agreed to pay $750,000 by [his sentencing day] to avoid prison. He then would have had several years to pay back the remaining $1.282 million to three other victims.

Brie reportedly scammed one victim by saying the money he needed for his business would help people under foreclosure repay their mortgages.

Source: 'Con man' who couldn't pay goes to prison.