You’ve all heard those stories about people selling swamp land and so on …
Well rather than sell some sucker a bridge, a California man - Steven Ferguson - made off with $5 million dollars when he sold off a waste treatment plant in New Jersey.
the smooth talker promised huge returns on the investments that his soon to be victims thought was going to be a waste treatment plant.
He has since been sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $6 million in fines.
