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Denver Man Sent To Prison For Defrauding Investors Of $5.4 Million

A Denver District Court judge on Monday ordered Geoffrey James, 59, to spend 12 years in federal prison.

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James was led away in handcuffs to begin serving his prison term in Oklahoma City where is already serving a federal sentence that was handed down a week earlier, according to a press release from the Denver District Attorney's Office.
James was led away in handcuffs to begin serving his prison term in Oklahoma City where is already serving a federal sentence that was handed down a week earlier, according to a press release from the Denver District Attorney's Office. (CBS)

By Logan Smith, CBS Denver

Geoffrey James, who was convicted of defrauding investors out of almost five and a half million dollars, received state and federal sentences this month.

A Denver District Court judge on Monday ordered Geoffrey James, 59, to spend 12 years in federal prison.

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