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...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged New York City-based Unicoin Inc., a cryptocurrency company, with making false and misleading statements in an offering of certificates that purportedly conveyed rights to receive crypto assets called Unicoin...
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...