Sentencing delayed for former Trumbull man guilty of Ponzi scheme

CLEVELAND — The sentencing for David Harriett, formerly of Howland, convicted in federal court of mail fraud for operating a $7 million Ponzi scheme, has been reset until 1 p.m. Sept. 28 so that Harriett can receive cancer treatments.

The hearing had been set for this afternoon.

Prosecutors say Harriett, 60, a former General Motors Lordstown executive, defrauded about 200 investors from August 1996 until January of this year.

Many of the investors were local acquaintances of Harriett whom he knew from General Motors, the U.S. attorney’s office in Cleveland said.

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