Most Recent Articles For: Real Estate

Written by Administrator on March 8th, 2011
Linda Rose Gagnon, 57, Tustin, California, surrendered to FBI agents after being indicted on wire fraud charges alleging she defrauded a group of nuns out of more than a quarter million dollars.  Gagnon is scheduled to be arraigned on three counts of wire fraud in United States District Court. A federal grand jury indicted ...
Written by Administrator on March 6th, 2011
In Fulton County, Georgia, a recent story in The Atlanta Journal Constitution on the proliferation of vacant and rundown properties highlights the role that the sale of tax liens plays in the physical deterioration of some neighborhoods:A contributing factor, [community development groups and tax officials] say, is the sale of ...
Written by Administrator on March 6th, 2011
The Center for Public Integrity reports:A key witness in a federal probe of corruption in Maryland property tax-lien sales has stated under oath that he rigged bids for years while representing a Florida bank and other firms that bought liens at annual sales auctions, newly unsealed court records show.Baltimore real ...
Written by Administrator on February 28th, 2011
Douglas F. Vaughan, 63, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from a fraudulent investment operation that was actually a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme. The 30-count indictment generally alleges that, between 2005 and 2010, Vaughan operated a promissory note investment program, which he marketed as a means ...
Written by Administrator on February 24th, 2011
Eric Brauss, 68, Dallas, Texas, has been indicted in a commercial real estate investment scheme in the Eastern District of Texas. Brauss was named in a 10-count indictment for his role in defrauding investors in a commercial real estate investment scheme. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on ...
Written by Administrator on February 23rd, 2011
Victor Wolf and Natalia Wolf have been indicted for an alleged real estate fraud scheme in Florida involving their companies Sky Group Realty LLC, Sky Development Group, LLC, Sky Construction Group LLC and All Title and Trust LLC. According the Indictment, between September 2004, through October 2006, the defendants, through their companies, ...
Written by Administrator on February 20th, 2011
From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Dallas, Texas):David Boles, 52, of Colleyville, Texas, who owned Metro Buy Homes, LLC., pleaded guilty [...] to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.***According to documents filed in the case, from January 2008 ...