DENVER (KDVR) — A Boulder man was sentenced Monday to serve 10 years in prison for his part in a mass-mailing fraud scheme that took tens of millions of dollars out of hundreds of thousands of Americans’ pockets.
Robert Reger, 57, of Boulder, and David Lytle, 64, of Leawood, Kansas, were c onvicted by a federal jury following a two-week trial of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and numerous counts of substantive mail fraud and wire fraud. Reger was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) in prison, and Lytle was sentenced to 48 months (four years) in prison.
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Evidence at trial showed that the victims whose data was sold led to harmful fraud, facilitated by the pair of defendants.
In one example the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado shared, the defendants sold nearly 100 lists of names and addresses to one client who used the data to defraud more than 218,000 victims of more than $23.7 million.