Harris gets 10-year sentence for role in fraud scheme

CLEVELAND — A federal judge this morning sentenced Warren native Keelan Harris to 10 years in prison for his role in a Warren-based ponzi scheme.

Judge Christopher A. Boyko also ordered Harris, 38, to pay restitution of $15,596,345 to more than 300 victims of the scheme, which Harris and his brother, Kevin Harris, carried out from the former Electrical Workers Union hall on Parkman Road NW from 2006 to 2008.

In a sentencing memorandum, Keelan Harris' attorney argued that Kevin Harris was the mastermind of the enterprise and that Keelan Harris only carried out "clerical" functions for his brother.

He asked Judge Boyko to find that Keelan Harris was only responsible for the $120,000 in fraud related to the money his brother paid him, not the entire amount lost by investors.

Kevin Harris, 50, was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 2012 for his role in the scheme.