Ex-pastor gets 1 year, 9 months for sports memorabilia fraud

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A former Arkansas pastor has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for his part in helping a sports memorabilia collector make millions of dollars by fraudulently selling normal items represented as valuable mementos. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that John Alexander McLean was ordered Wednesday to report to a federal prison by April 8 and to repay $203,966 in restitution to 10 people that the 59-year-old former Presbyterian minister in Little Rock conned. U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. named nine of them, who are owed amounts ranging from $5,300 to $48,216. Another unnamed person was defrauded of $3,700.

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