A jury found Diamond guilty of 15 counts of mail fraud affecting a financial institution and 15 counts of wire fraud affecting a financial institution.  The judge sentenced James Ignatius Diamond, 69, to 70 months in federal prison for defrauding hundreds of victims, mainly dist...

            Michael “Mickey” Henschel, 70, of Van Nuys, whom the feds called a long-time con artist got 240 months in federal prison for running a multimillion-dollar real estate scam that conned elderly people out of their homes, gouging them with fraudulent threats of litigation and extorting m...