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USA Today Sat, Aug 20 6:29 AM PDT
(NEWSER) – Before Dino Carter even proposed to his girlfriend,
he asked Martyn Galvin to be the best man at his wedding. Galvin repaid
his pal of 18 years by setting up the bachelor party, collecting money
from the groom and his friends for a big bash in Prague and a
horse-racing outing in York—then skipping out with the $10,500 or so he
had gathered from the group, the Guardian reports. The British swindler
(deemed perhaps the "worst best man ever" by the New Zealand Herald) was
sentenced to 20 months in jail in a Teesside court Thursday in what the
presiding judge called "one of the nastiest and meanest" scams he'd
ever seen. The partygoers only found out they'd been bamboozled when 17
of them ...
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