The Calgary Sun · Jun 19, 2015
John Spano Jr. gets 10 years in prison on forgery charges
A closeup of arena workers tools used to help remove the ice and the rink from the Nassau Coliseum on May 5, 2015. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images/AFP)PAINESVILLE, OHIO - A man who once tried to pull off an audacious scam to buy the NHL's New York Islanders has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for another fraud case in northeast Ohio.
Fifty-year-old John Spano Jr. was sentenced Thursday in Painesville, 30 miles east of Cleveland, after pleading guilty last month to 16 counts of forgery.
Spano was accused of collecting thousands of dollars in commissions from false accounts he'd created while working as a salesman for a health care laundry company.