Duo must also cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle
Two fraudsters will spend nearly five years behind bars each and pay a combined $1.5 million for bilking Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones.
The other scammer, Pengfei Xue, 34, a Chinese citizen living in Germantown, Maryland, got 54 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and has been ordered to pay $397,800 to Apple along with a $19,890 money judgment.
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