A co-owner of a downtown State College cheesesteak shop was sentenced on Friday to a term of 15 to 30 years in state prison after pleading guilty to charges that his southeastern Pennsylvania electrical contracting company defrauded dozens of customers.
Joseph Ford, whose Campus Steaks opened at 119 S. Pugh St. in State College in 2023, was also ordered by a Montgomery County judge to pay $407,207 in restitution to customers in six counties who paid for work his company never performed, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
Ford, 55, pleaded guilty in January to 74 felony counts of deceptive business practices…