Crime & Real Estate
For those who are laundering ill-gotten gains via real estate transactions, regulators are about to make life much, much harder. Geographic Targeting Orders (GTO) are temporary regulations put in place by the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The overall point of the orders is to understand and curtail money laundering, tax evasion, and…
Investors were lured by brochures, radio interviews, and email invitations for dinners, where they could learn about “9% investment return opportunities” with North Forty Development and Texas First Financial. Instead, hundreds saw their money allegedly spent on anything but real estate development. The president of Frisco-based Christian Homes, Phillip Michael Carter, and his wife, Shelley…
Longtime Tarrant County Justice of the Peace Jacquelyn Wright has had her fair share of controversy in the 28 years she’s served in that position. But that controversy may be outpaced by Wednesday’s news that a grand jury indicted Wright, 77, on four felony charges related to homestead exemptions she claimed. It is alleged that…
In the first of two trials, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty in August on eight of 18 counts of fraud. All that kept him from being found guilty on all 18 counts was a lone juror. The “witch hunt” had found another witch. Not eager for a potentially worse repeat at…
And he apparently had a 20 year grudge against the doctor, renown Houston cardiologist Dr. Mark Hausknecht, who was shot to death as he rode his bicycle to work on July 20. He has his own brokerage, Pappas Realty Company, which he apparently ran out of his Westbury house at 5003 Stillbrooke Drive. The suspect,…
