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May 15, 2025 — PORTLAND, Ore.—The owner of a local real estate investment company pleaded guilty today for his role in an $18 million fraud scheme, joining his business partner and co-owner of the company who pleaded guilty in March 2025.

May 11, 2023 — Shakeerah Kaneisha Yvette Vinson pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for fraudulently obtaining a Paycheck Protection Act ("PPP") COVID-19 loan for her real estate broker business. She faces up to 20 years in prison.

July 31, 2023 — Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert V. Matthews, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 65 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy, money laundering, and tax evasion offenses related to multiple schemes that defrauded investors and financial institutions out of tens of millions of dollars.

Feb. 9, 2024 — A real estate developer and part-time resident of Vancouver, Washington, was sentenced to federal prison today for fraudulently obtaining Covid-relief program funds and laundering a portion of the proceeds while on federal supervised release for a previous fraud conviction.

July 18, 2025 — A popular former podcaster was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for orchestrating a real estate Ponzi scheme that took in over $7.3 million from at least 63 victims from across the United States, involving a wide range of income levels and ages.

August 5, 2022 — James Thomas Bramlette, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prisons after pleading guilty to wire and tax fraud.

December 21, 2023 — An executive at a San Luis Obispo-based real estate development company who was previously charged with paying a county supervisor nearly $100,000 in bribes has been named in a superseding indictment that alleges a scheme to defraud investors in a Texas real estate project, the Justice Department announced today.

September 25, 2023 — A federal jury in Chicago has convicted two real estate developers of participating in a conspiracy that embezzled millions of dollars from the failed Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Chicago.

April 10, 2024 — Today, an eight-count indictment was unsealed, charging Matthew Alan Stacy of Blanchard, Chong Iu Phu and Chanh Iu Phu both of Edmond, for their roles in facilitating the black-market marijuana industry in Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.

Oct. 7, 2024 — A real estate agent was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a multiyear scheme to defraud his clients by engaging in fraudulent short sales of government and bank-owned properties to straw buyers acting at the direction of the defendant and a co-conspirator.