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Par Funding enforcer James LaForte sentenced to more than 11 years prison for fraud, attack on lawyer

Prosecutors said James LaForte was an “attack dog” who threatened people on behalf of the company, which was run by his brother Joseph LaForte.

James LaForte, in a law enforcement surveillance photograph from 2021 submitted with an FBI affidavit accusing LaForte of attacking a lawyer for the court-appointed receiver overseeing Par Funding, the Philadelphia loan company his brother Joseph founded.
James LaForte, in a law enforcement surveillance photograph from 2021 submitted with an FBI affidavit accusing LaForte of attacking a lawyer for the court-appointed receiver overseeing Par Funding, the Philadelphia loan company his brother Joseph founded.Read moreUnited States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania