NEW YORK (AP) — Sentencing three men to prison for 20 years, a judge urged New York City officials to make substantial reforms Monday to prevent the kind of historic fraud over its project to modernize its payroll systems.

“It is a classic tale of greed and corruption,” U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels said as he sentenced Mark Mazer, Gerard Denault and Dimitry Aronshtein following their November convictions.

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