Cincinnati Scammer Gets Six Years For $100K+ Ripoff

In Hamilton County, Ohio, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports:

• Fedel James was many things to different people. To Greenhills' Howard Jones, James was an author and business partner who was going to help make both of them rich. To National City Bank, he was a valued customer with a business account. To two women in Chicago, he was a savior who was going to help them save their homes. But to police and a judge, James was something else entirely.

• "You're just a con man," Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman told James moments before sending him to prison Thursday for six years.

According to the story, one victim borrowed against his home and gave Jones $52,000 for a bogus business deal; two others gave him a total of $50,000 in exchange for a phony offer to save their homes from foreclosure.

For the story, see Con man raked in $115,000 (But now he's going to prison for six years).