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A Brooklyn man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years and one month in prison for trying to extort money from a Monmouth County resident and the man’s adult son in 2019, officials said. Francis A. Garzon, 35, previously pleaded guilty before in Trenton Federal Court to one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act extortion and one count of attempt to commit Hobbs Act extortion, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The Hobbs Act prohibits robbery and extortion affecting interstate or foreign commerce that includes violence in relation to those crimes. Garzon and his co-defendant, E…

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