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David Saks is a musician, retired real estate broker, and long-time ActiveRain member. David's blog features important information relevant to the safety, integrity and security of the industry. In addition to his widely read real estate fraud blog, a comprehensive overview of real estate continuing education is a weekly addition for his subscribers and the ActiveRain community at-large. Thank you for subscribing to and for visiting David's ActiveRain home on the internet. Please join. Membership in ActiveRain will enrich your life !

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2014 

Investment Broker Pleads Guilty in Wire Fraud Scheme That Netted More Than $190,000 U.S. Attorney’s Office August 21, 2014 Eastern District of Louisiana (504) 680-3000 NEW ORLEANS—U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that AARON ORTLOFF, age 42, of Kenner, Louisiana, plead guilty as ...
08/22/2014
International Con Man Sentenced for Scamming Investors and Dodging Taxes U.S. Attorney’s Office August 21, 2014 Southern District of California (619) 557-5610 Svein Erik Ulsteen, a former executive and shareholder of Anturion Limited, a company formed in the Channel Islands, was sentenced today ...
08/22/2014
Bergen County Man and Disbarred New York Attorney Indicted in Real Estate Investment Fraud Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office August 21, 2014 District of New Jersey (973) 645-2888 NEWARK, NJ—Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury today for allegedly using a real estate investment scheme to def...
08/22/2014
Five Charged with Fraud in Wilkes-Barre City Employees Federal Credit Union Investigation U.S. Attorney’s Office August 21, 2014 Middle District of Pennsylvania (717) 221-4482 The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Grand Jury in Scranton retu...
08/22/2014
Former Hillsborough County Resident Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank, Wire, and Mail Fraud U.S. Attorney’s Office August 20, 2014 Middle District of Florida (813) 274-6000 TAMPA, FL—United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Brandon Bolger (40, Chicago, IL) today pleaded...
08/21/2014
HUD NEWS   U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Julián Castro, Secretary   Office of Public Affairs, Washington, DC 20410       HUD No. 14-101                                                                                FOR RELEASE                                                  ...
08/21/2014
Concord Township Man Indicted for Defrauding Cleveland Credit Union of $2.3 Million U.S. Attorney’s Office August 20, 2014 Northern District of Ohio (216) 622-3600 A seven-count federal indictment was returned charging a Concord Township man defrauding Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union out of $2.3 m...
08/21/2014
Two Men Indicted for Defrauding 60 People of $6.5 Million Through Real Estate Investment U.S. Attorney’s Office August 20, 2014 Northern District of Ohio (216) 622-3600 Two men were indicted on charges they defrauded approximately 60 people out of more than $6.5 million through a fraudulent Ariz...
08/21/2014
Lansing Man Pleads Guilty in Federal Mortgage Fraud Probe Richard Hollern Admits Participating in a Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud U.S. Attorney’s Office August 19, 2014 Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404 GRAND RAPIDS, MI—U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Richard Hollern...
08/20/2014
    Buffalo Man Sentenced for Clean Air Act Violation Related to the Kensington Towers Project U.S. Attorney’s Office August 19, 2014 Western District of New York (716) 843-5700 BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Rai Johnson, 35, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted o...
08/20/2014
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