Afternoon Briefing: Man who sued women over social media posts sentenced to jail

Good afternoon, Chicago.

A Chicago-area man who made a national media splash when he filed a lawsuit against dozens of women who allegedly bad-mouthed him on a tell-all Facebook dating page was sentenced today to a year in federal prison for a tax fraud that the judge called “patently outrageous.”

Nikko D’Ambrosio, 32, of Des Plaines, was convicted in January on tax fraud counts alleging he vastly underreported income he’d made distributing “sweepstakes” gaming machines for a company with ties to Chicago mob figures.

In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said the numbers D’Ambrosio tried to pass off to the IRS about his work mileage, charitable contributions and business meals “are outrageous.”

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