A British man has pleaded guilty to his role in operating a Spain-based “boiler room” operation that conned about 250 investors out of nearly $3 million. The U.S. attorney’s office says 52-year-old Martin Rhys-Jones of the United Kingdom pleaded guilty in federal court in Buffalo to laundering money acquired in a wire fraud conspiracy. Prosecutors say Jones and Arnold Wrobel, a former Buffalo resident, oversaw a boiler room in Barcelona that bilked investors in the U.K. and Canada by getting them to buy nearly worthless shares of restricted stock at highly inflated prices.

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