DENVER (KDVR) — A Golden man pleaded guilty in July 2022 and was sentenced earlier this month for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and tax evasion for a fraud scheme that impacted over 150,000 consumer victims.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, Henry Aragon, 54, of Golden , “devised” and took part in a nationwide telemarking fraud scheme involving magazine subscription sales. Aragon and co-defendants were accused of defrauding over 150,000 consumers across the country, many of whom the U.S. Attorney’s Office said were older or susceptible to fraud.
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To do this, a network of dozens of fake magazine sale companies was created and located across the U.S. and Canada. Using telemarketing call centers, the companies used deceptive sales scripts to defraud victims by “inducing them — through a series of lies and misrepresentations — into making large or repeat payments to the companies,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.