NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A Connecticut art dealer convicted in the sale of fraudulent artwork has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.

David Crespo, of Guilford, was sentenced Friday in federal court in New Haven.

The former owner of the Brandon Gallery in Madison pleaded guilty to mail fraud in September 2013. Federal prosecutors described him as a serial fraudster who forged documents to falsely represent that the pieces he sold were real.

The New Haven Register reports that Crespo was accused of victimizing more than 10 people, with losses totaling between $400,000 and $1 million.

Despite entering the guilty plea in September 2013, Crespo denied many of the government's allegations. He said if the art he sold was fake he did not know it.