A Massachusetts resident got a six-month prison sentence plus two years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $965,569 for his role in a lottery fraud scheme last week.
Mohamed Jaafar, 31, who lives in Watertown, received the sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton after being found guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. His co-conspirators, Ali Jaffar and Yousef Jaafar, were sentenced to five years and 50 months, respectively, this past May, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
