Buffalo man admits to defrauding individuals of over $400K around the country

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with nearly half a million dollars defrauded from hundreds of people across the country, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.Prosecutors said that Nicholas Janes, 26, would contact people around the country by phone posing as either a local sheriff's deputy or an attorney at a fake law firm telling them that they owed money. When he pretended to be a sheriff's deputy he would threaten the victims with