Alicia England filed fake deeds using stolen identities from the living and the dead, then sold houses she never owned to buyers who found the listings on Facebook Marketplace. On July 14, 2026, a federal judge sent her to prison for 75 months.
A senior conveyancing lawyer at a Singapore firm has been charged with forgery tied to a luxury condominium purchase inside the country's largest money laundering case. The paperwork that made the money clean is now the paperwork the state is unwinding.
A West Bloomfield businessman spent seven years telling investors he was about to break ground on a $3 billion youth sports village near Detroit Metro Airport. Federal prosecutors say the land was never his, the escrow account never existed, and the money went somewhere else entirely.
The Allahabad High Court pulled a single real estate complaint out of the state police's hands and handed it to the country's corporate fraud investigators. The complaint was small. The structure behind it is not.
Curtis Quigley drowned in the Okanagan before he could stand trial. A B.C. judge just ruled the trustee can move fast on the investors who came out ahead, because in a Ponzi scheme, coming out ahead means you were paid with someone else's money.
Seth Adam Depiano was already serving twelve years for a $24M real estate Ponzi when prosecutors say he built another one from inside federal prison. The second machine ran on contraband phones, dead people's houses, and a 26-year-old who just pleaded guilty.