By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 12:15 EST, 16 December 2013 | UPDATED: 13:32 EST, 16 December 2013 A man convicted of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud was today sentenced to 28 years in prison. Judge Steven Gall also ordered the defendant, who identifies himself as 67-year-old Bobby Thompson, to pay a $6 million fine. Authorities say the defendant is Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody. The Ohio attorney general's office, which handled his trial, asked the judge in a filing last week to sentence him to 41 years in prison. Sentence: John Donald Cody, pictured in court Monday, was sentenced to 28 years in prison for racketeering, theft and money laundering charges
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Cleveland, Ohio, judge Steven Gall handed down the sentence Monday to Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody aka Bobby Thompson
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He was also ordered to pay a $6 million fine
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Cody was convicted in November of defrauding donors of up to $100m in 41 states through his Florida charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association
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