FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A scam artist based in Ossian was handed prison time and a hefty fee to repay victims of wire fraud and a money laundering scheme.
Wednesday, a judge in U.S. District Court handed Janis Sexton, 63, a five-year prison sentence, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Sexton had pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection to a scheme that lasted more than a year.
Court documents came to light in 2023 that detailed how Sexton started a number of different businesses and used a tactic called a “business email compromise” scam. Victims would receive an email telling them to send money to another account, and the funds ended up in the hands of Sexton and “others known and unknown,” according to court documents…