BRIDGEPORT, Conn — A Brazilian man who lives in Naugatuck was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for operating an investment fraud scheme.

Twenty-eight-year-old Rafael Muzzi received the sentence in Bridgeport federal court, according to a report from the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Court documents and statements show that in 2017 and 2018, Muzzi used two different entities he created – Solace Investments LLC and Asseno LLC – to induce victim-investors to give him money.

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Victims provided Muzzi funds because he represented that he would use them for trading currencies in foreign exchange markets using a trading software program he said he develo

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