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...
The former owner of a popular wedding venue in Monroe, North Carolina has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for defrauding customers and investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to court documents, Jason Lottman orchestrated a scheme to fraudulently...
An ex-director for a homeownership nonprofit and a former official in Michigan’s Wayne County who hatched a scheme to steal residential properties facing tax foreclosure were sentenced to prison. According to the court records, Zina Thomas, formerly employed as the...
A New York man who used deed theft to take over two Harlem brownstones with a combined value of $4.7 million was convicted after a seven-week trial. Joseph Makhani was found guilty of two counts of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the First Degree and one...
A Long Island man was charged with grand larceny and scheme to defraud in a series of real estate investment scams that siphoned $100,000 from multiple victims. According to combined media reports, Arnulfo Castillo – who is also known as Alexander Castilllo Carias...