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,...
More than 20 Chinese EB-5 investors have filed a $13.4 million lawsuit against developers, immigration agents, and lawyers whom they accuse of duping them into putting placing more than $12 million of EB-5 funds into a casino-resort project in the Northern Marianas....
The founder and CEO of an Orange County, California-based private equity fund has been charged with defrauding hundreds of investors out of approximately $62.5 million via a promissory note scam involving real estate, Broadway shows, and cryptocurrency. According to...
A pair of Edmonton residents have been charged with running a real estate investment scam that included mortgage fraud. According to the charges brought against them, Yuvraj Verma and Rohit Sethi used several corporations, including Cancom Development Ltd. and Roxdale...