Pump & Dump

The land was never bought. The Rolexes were.

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.

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