The former chief financial officer (CFO) for a Los Angeles-based affordable housing developer was arrested for using state grant funds to pay for his personal expenses. According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, the California Department of Housing and...
A Michigan woman has been charged with 10 felonies for selling homes she did not own. Since early 2024, Amanda Escalante-Lopez, a 28-year-old resident of Pontiac, allegedly made several verbal agreements for land contracts and title to homes that she did not own. The...
The owner of a defunct Massachusetts real estate brokerage has been indicted for embezzlement. Boston 25 News reports Stephen D. Webster, broker and principal with Success! Real Estate in Marshfield, was accused of detouring more than $11.6 million in client escrow...
A former Calgary realtor who acknowledged running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded dozens of people out of more than $3.5 million has been banned for life from working in Alberta’s real estate industry. The Calgary Herald reports Eric Drinkwater received his permanent...
A California man was sentenced to eight years in prison for coordinating real estate scam in Belize that defrauded hundreds of victims out of approximately $77 million. Newport Beach-based Andris Pukke, who also went by the aliases Marc Romeo and Andy Storm,...
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