Syracuse man gets 20 years for false bankruptcy claims

A Syracuse man faces 20 years in prison for filing false bankruptcy petitions in New York and several other states alleging that law enforcement officials and judges owed him millions of dollars in debts.

Federal prosecutors say 41-year-old Robert Johnson filed the bogus bankruptcy papers claiming the officials were commodity brokers who committed wire fraud and other crimes and owed him money…

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