Buffalo debt collector gets prison for $31 million fraud scheme – NewYorkUpstate.com

Maurice Sessum, co-owner of 4 Star Resolution, a Buffalo-based debt collection company, will be spending 7 1/2 years in prison for fraud. Sessum, also the company’s chief financial, was sentenced Friday for orchestrating a scheme to coerce thousands of victims to overpay their debts by more than $31 million, according to officials. The U.S. Attorney’s…