A Lake Hiawatha, N.J., man who opened an account in a New York law firm’s name to help perpetrate a phony investment scam was sentenced in Trenton on Wednesday to a prison term of just under six years.

In the late 1990s, Vlade Stojchevski — a computer analyst who pretended he was an investment broker — obtained $32,000 in checks and cash from his friend, purportedly for various investments in Russian securities, though he kept the money, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Trenton.

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