A fraudster whose chicanery was inspired by a “Seinfeld” joke was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to 45 months in prison for wire fraud and ordered to pay $1.3 million in forfeiture. Thomas John Sfraga, also known by the alias TJ Stone, presented himself to...
The US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent agency for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia, is cancelling its 15-year lease on its Washington, DC-based headquarters as the Trump administration plans to eliminate the agency. In...
The Florida legislature is considering the use of accessory dwelling units (ADU) to help solve the state’s affordable housing shortage. News Service of Florida reports panels within the state’s House and Senate passed bills that would enable localities to allow the...
Toll Brothers Apartment Living, the rental subsidiary of the luxury builder Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL), in joint venture partnership with PGIM Real Estate announced the grand opening of The Lindley, a new 37-story high-rise apartment community in the heart of San...
The British Columbia Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) issued five consent orders to individuals who committed professional misconduct by engaging in business with an unregistered mortgage broker named Jay Kanth Chaudhary. BFCSA conducted a multi-year investigation...
HUD’s new priorities, Gavin Newsom’s financial benefactors and a pair of high-profile acquisition stories – one genuine, one not. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of March 10-14. Hit: DEI is DOA. Kudos to Housing...
