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A barred stock broker who used more than $1 million in funds from investors on personal expenses and fraudulently received almost $100,000 in COVID-19 relief has been sentenced to 45 months in federal prison, officials said. Anthony Mastroianni Jr., 49, of Manalapan, was sentenced in Trenton federal court on Thursday after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said. After agreeing to be barred from working as a broker by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in 2016, Mastroianni spent five years collecting money from investors and …

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