A federal grand jury has indicted two Israeli real estate investment entrepreneurs, their company, and two other co-conspirators for allegedly double-pledging properties to obtain multiple loans and for conspiring to conceal information from lenders and investors.
Charges were brought against Vision & Beyond Group LLC (V&B), its co-owners Stanislav Grinberg and Peter Gizunterman, and real estate closing and title company employees Keya Hamilton and Kelly West.
According to information from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, Grinberg and Gizunterman formed the real estate business V&B in approximately 2019 to purchase 100 multi-unit apartments and family properties, including in the greater Cincinnati area, for renovation and rental income.
Grinberg and Gizunterman, with the help of Hamilton and West, allegedly obtained refinancing for the properties but did not use the funds to pay off the existing loans and mortgages. The defendants also allegedly falsified financial documents, altered closing documents and removed mortgages from title commitments.
The indictment details that Grinberg and Gizunterman received two loans in 2022 totaling more than $36 million for approximately 60 multi-family properties in the Cincinnati area that were owned by the defendants. The closing of the two loans was supposed to pay off 30 specific prior mortgages.
It is alleged that 20 of the prior mortgages worth $17.2 million were not paid off at closing. Instead, more than $273,000 was allegedly paid directly to Hamilton; nearly $7 million was paid to a title company controlled by Hamilton and used by V&B; more than $6.2 million was paid directly to V&B’s account and approximately $2.7 million was paid to another bank.
The co-conspirators allegedly engaged in a similar scheme in 2023 involving four apartment complexes in Lexington, Kentucky, involving loans totaling $24.6 million.
The defendants are each charged with conspiring to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, making false statements and money laundering. Grinberg was originally charged by criminal complaint in March 2025.
Put them in jail for a long time and not in the jail for wealthy people. We need to investigate many of these “investors” that’s why the rents are so high and people can’t afford to save for a down payment. Stop foreign investors from buying properties in this country. Do we know where the money is coming from? Drugs? Take a look at South Beach in Miami, most of the properties are owned by South Americans.
Heidi – i “see” you and your broker writing a very large check in the near future to settle a discrimination complaint filed with your state Commission Against Discrimination. Your comments reflect a reckless disregard for the REALTOR Code Of Ethics in addition to Federal and State Fair Housing Laws. May I suggest you take a refresher course on fair housing law, hate speech and gain a better appreciation of who and what is a protected class and class member, and how this all impacts you as a businessperson dealing with members of the public who have a right to enjoy equal opportunity and access to business services.
I hate thieves anywhere. If found to be guilty they should be punished. Same for the small fry who were no doubt paid little. Unsaid is possible incompetence of the local clerk or deed’s office. There is a several weeks or months delay in completing a deed transfer.
I agree with Martin. How did these two guys commit this fraud without someone along the line catching it? Title, escrow, notary, recorder’s office…… where were they in all of this?
It just doesn’t pay to be a crook!!
Someone was involved at the bank, no possible way this happened as described unless the bank only hired idiots.
I guess someone did finally catch them so that is good…it is hard to believe in 2026 with all the double checking they do for me to move my own money, that this was not caught long ago….