{
  "id": 5416321,
  "title": "Wine Distributor Stephen Burton Gets Prison Term in Rare Vintage Scam",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/wine-distributor-stephen-burton-gets-prison-term-in-rare-vintage-scam",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-03T20:24:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-03/wine-fraudster-gets-6-years-in-prison-for-97-million-loan-scam"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The founder of a London wine-distribution business was sentenced in the US to six years in prison for orchestrating a scam that cost investors almost $100 million and was based on bottles of rare vintages that didn’t exist.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}