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NEW YORK — A pair of Queens men convicted of conspiring to scam the taxi dispatch system at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport will go to prison for charging drivers to skip the line. Judge Paul Crotty handed down two terms Monday in Manhattan Federal Court, four months after Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman admitted they corrupted the electronic dispatch system at JFK for 13 months to enable cab drivers to leapfrog over others in line. He sentenced Abayev, who organized the scheme, to four years in prison and Leyman, who collected payment, to two. Aided by Russia-based hackers, the former cab d…

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