A man from Costa Rica who ran a scam that took more than $2 million from American senior citizens has been sentenced to federal prison. Esteban De Jesus Campos Chanto, 43, received a 97-month sentence in Trenton federal court on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said in a news release. He previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. He was in the U.S. illegally and living in Trenton while running the scheme, officials said. From 2019 to 2021, Chanto’s associates in Costa Rica called elderly Americans and persuaded them to either mail or wire mone…