Francis A. Garzon, 35, of Brooklyn, must serve the entire plea-bargained 121-month sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system.
Garzon and Endrit Kllogjeri, 28, were undone by an undercover detective posing as the Monmouth County victim.
Garzon took a deal from the government, pleading guilty last July to conspiracy and extortion rather than risk the potential consequences of a trial conviction.
Kllogjeri, meanwhile, rolled the dice and lost when he was convicted of the same charges following a one-week trial in Trenton last June.
He’s scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Trenton on March 21, 2024.
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In addition to his 10 years in federal prison, Munoz was sentenced to three years of supervised release. by U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraish
Both men and an as-yet unidentified co-conspirator schemed to shake down the Marlboro victim and his son, who lived in Brooklyn, according to a federal grand jury indictment.
The defendants threatened to harm the father if he didn’t recover a bag from his son that purportedly held undisclosed property worth $100,000 and was stolen from them, it says.