An upstate New York real estate broker was arrested on multiple charges related to forgery and identity theft. CBS 6 Albany reports Jean Maloney, the owner of 21st Century Properties and Hanks Hollow Realty, was hired by a business in Halfmoon, New York, to manage its...
A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty for coordinating scams that involved fraudulent deed transfers and property sales. Alicia England of Chattanooga engaged in a wire fraud scheme that involved filing of bogus deeds for residential properties in North Carolina and other...
Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz, the CEO of the commercial real estate investment firm Nightingale Properties, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for conducting a fraud scheme that siphoned $62.8 million from more than 800 investors. Schwartz solicited investments through...
A real estate developer pleaded guilty to defrauding investors out of more than $13 million with scams involving fraudulent projects in Latin America. Barry Breeman, 75, of Tuxedo Park, New York, solicited investments in various real estate projects through false and...
Joshua Schuster, a former New York City real estate developer, has been indicted for conducting a four-year, multimillion-dollar real estate investment scam. According to the charges, between 2018 and 2022 Schuster and his real estate development business Silverback...