A California man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison after pretending to own two waterfront mansions and taking out $1.8 million in mortgages on the Fort Lauderdale properties.

George French Jones Jr., 50, of Santa Monica is accused of falsifying documents to make it look like he owned the mansions and using the fake paperwork to land the loans.

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