Four people have been charged by Houston police for conducting a rental housing fraud scheme involving identity theft. Click2Houston.com reported that Benjamin and Nazly Greene, Harold Doyle and Teresa Zuluaga were charged with engaging in organized criminal activity....
Steven Cook, the former president of SouthernTrust Bank in Marion, Illinois, was fined $6,000 and sentenced to 50 hours of community service and two weekends in Illinois’ Jackson County jail for his role in a real estate fraud. He will also likely receive a lifetime...
Three real estate investors pleaded guilty for their roles in a multi-year conspiracy to fraudulently obtain a $74 million loan and a $45 million loan and to fraudulently acquire multifamily properties. Fredrick Schulman, 72, of New York, and Chaim “Eli” Puretz, 29,...
The British Columbia Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) has disciplined a Vancouver real estate broker and her personal company for professional misconduct involving an investor client. According to BCFCA, between 2018 and 2020 Wendy Mills approached a former client...
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) announced it is returning $2.1 million to investors who were defrauded in a real estate investment scheme that drained $33 million from its victims. In 2016, the BCSC found sisters Siu Mui “Debbie” Wong and Siu Kon...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
