A Washington, DC-based CPA has pleaded guilty to making a false statement on a mortgage application and failing to file an income tax return. Timothy Trifilo was a managing director at an unnamed tax firm where he specialized in transaction structuring and advisory...
A New Jersey real estate investor was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $22 million in restitution for his role in a $54.7 million multi-year mortgage fraud scheme. Aron Puretz was an employee of Apex Equity Group, a real estate investment and...
A Florida real estate agent self-dubbed the “Land Man” was found guilty by a federal judge of five counts of willfully failing to file his income tax returns during a five-year period. Sedita Charles Cayson is accused of having a history of not filing income taxes,...
A former construction company owner who was sentenced to over 15 years in prison for a $58.1 million scheme to defraud Las Vegas-area homeowner associations (HOA) had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden. According to combined media reports, Leon Benzer is the...
Three brothers in a prominent real estate industry family who have been the target of an FBI probe for rape and sexual assault were arrested in Miami. The Wall Street Journal reported Tal and Oren Alexander, who were brokers at Douglas Elliman before starting their...
FBI Investigating Lurin Capital Amid Multifamily Collapse
