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A man convicted in September of more than a dozen felony counts stemming from a complicated scam at San Francisco's One Rincon Hill luxury residential tower was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in state prison. Jay Shah, 48, who was convicted along with co-defendant Winston Lum, was ordered by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlene Kieselbach to serve the 20-year term and pay a fine of $14.1 million -- twice the amount taken in the scam. "This was a fantastical web of lies and fraud orchestrated by Mr. Shah," the judge said, adding that he showed "a high degree of...

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