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Calif. man pleads guilty in Bakken leasing scam

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to fleece investors who bought into fictitious oil and gas projects in eastern Montana’s Bakken oil patch, authorities said Tuesday.

The guilty plea for Mike Alfons Campa, 54, of Yorba Linda, Calif., came as a jury trial got under way in U.S. District Court in Great Falls for the four remaining co-defendants in the case.

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