A Tennessee woman was sentenced to prison today for filing bogus deeds for residential real estate in North Carolina and other states and misusing the owners’ personal identifying information (PII). Alicia England of Chattanooga was ordered to serve 75 months in...
A Michigan man was charged in a criminal complaint for his alleged role in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars in investment funds in a phony real estate deal. According to the complaint, Kenneth Bardwell is the operator of a company called “Motown Sports Group...
Melanie S. Thompson, a former executive director of Georgia’s Hinesville Housing Authority (HHA), and another individual have been indicted on multiple counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Beginning as early as September 2019 and continuing...
A Texas man has been charged with defrauding dozens of people out of more than $3 million with phony “church flipping” real estate projects. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Richard Reinaldo Garcia was federally charged with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and...
The owner of a Sudbury, Massachusetts-based real estate company and accounting firm was sentenced to two months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for his role in a multi-year scheme to cheat the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with under-the-table...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
