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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.

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.

Information about Form 1120-REIT, U.S. Income Tax Return for Real Estate Investment Trusts, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Corporation, trusts, and associations electing to be treated as Real Estate Investment Trusts file this form to report their income, gains, losses, deductions, credits, certain penalties and income tax liability.

Publication 5550, Real Estate Property Foreclosure and Cancellation of Debt Audit Technique Guide, discusses the tax consequences for real estate property that is disposed of through foreclosure, short sale, deed in lieu of foreclosure, and abandonments.

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) use Form 8612, Return of Excise Tax on Undistributed Income of Real Estate Investment Trusts, to figure and pay the excise tax on undistributed income under section 4981.

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.

July 29, 2024 — A former Roswell escrow company owner was sentenced to 46-months in prison for defrauding his clients of over $1.2 million.

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.

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.