Local News in Brief : Game Show Winner Sentenced for Fraud
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Kerry Dee Ketchem, the convicted con man who won the largest single prize ever on television’s “Super Password” program, was sentenced Thursday in Indianapolis to four years in prison for bank fraud.
Ketchem’s cross-country bank fraud spree came to an end when he was recognized winning $58,600 on the game show broadcast from Hollywood, using the alias Patrick Quinn.
U.S. District Judge Larry McKinney ordered that the four-year sentence for Ketchem, 36, who pleaded guilty to two counts of defrauding a bank, run consecutively with a five-year sentence for an insurance fraud scheme in California.
McKinney ordered five years of probation after Ketchem serves his prison sentences.
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