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PurchasePro founder sentenced to nine years in prison

ALEXANDRA, Va. (AP) -- One-time dot-com billionaire Charles "Junior" Johnson, founder of and CEO of now-defunct PurchasePro, was sentenced to nine years in prison today for defrauding investors in his Las Vegas software company in 2001.

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