PHILADELPHIA, PA — A Florida man who pitched a high-tech solution to help addiction recovery patients while secretly running a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme was sentenced Wednesday to more than five years in federal prison, prosecutors said.
United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Henry Ford, also known as Cleothus “Lefty” Jackson, 51, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, was sentenced on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, to 66 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Ford was also ordered to pay $2,095,480 in restitution for defrauding investors out of approximately $5 million.
The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky…