Fantasy author gets 12 years in fraud case
June 29, 2012 09:00 AM | 1822 views | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend | print

ATLANTA — A judge has sentenced a Marietta author of a fantasy trilogy to 12 years in prison for bilking women out of millions of dollars. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates says the 61-year-old Mitchell Gross was sentenced Thursday for wire fraud and money laundering charges related to the scheme.

Gross was charged last year with scamming a Florida real estate agent he met through an online Jewish dating site into investing about $3 million in a sham company that he secretly controlled. They say he used some of the money to repay another woman who he had bilked out of at least $1.5 million. Gross writes under the pen names Mitchell Graham and Douglas Alan. His work includes a suspense story called “Circle of Lies.”

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