A Fort Worth business owner who received nearly $5 million from local customers for unfinished custom home building and remodeling projects pled guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge.
According to the charges, Christopher Judge and his wife, Raquelle Judge, were managing members of Judge DFW LLC, a Texas limited liability company. Each defendant admitted that between August 2020 and January 2023 they conspired to defraud consumers by purporting to offer custom architecture, construction, and interior design/décor services that they never completed. They also falsely represented that Christopher Judge was an architect.
As part of the fraud scheme, the Judges’ victims received below-market bids from Judge DFW and executed design and build contracts for the work. The defendants then started construction projects and accepted multiple installment payments from victims but never completed those projects, often leaving victims without a completed residence.
Plea documents showed the defendants defrauded over 40 victims residing in six Northern District of Texas counties, involving at least 24 different construction projects. Court records also showed that the defendants commingled victims’ installment payments in the primary Judge DFW operating account, frequently using individual victim installment payments for unrelated construction projects. The alleged loss amount totaled approximately $4.8 million.
Raquelle Judge pled guilty on December 17, 2025, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud that subjects her to a maximum of five years in federal prison; she is scheduled to be sentenced on April 14. Christopher Judge pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in federal prison; he is scheduled to be sentenced on May 12.
