Guyanese Francis Vieira, a pilot of the now-defunct luxury charter company Platinum Jet Management, was on Monday sentenced to six months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud charter customers and brokers using interstate wires and to impede and obstruct the FAA, a release from the Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey has said.
Vieira, 61, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, previously pleaded guilty to the lead count of a Superseding Indictment, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to defraud the United States. He entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh, who also imposed the sentence in Newark federal court.
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