Eric Granitur, a former Vero Beach real estate and probate attorney, was sentenced yesterday in the Southern District of Florida (West Palm Beach Division) to twelve months and a day in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Granitur was convicted by a federal jury in June of two counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy…
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Ohio (Cincinnati) have charged twelve individuals with operating a multistate South Florida-based moving scam that allegedly victimized more than 900 people. Five of the twelve defendants have been arrested, including four in South Florida, and the names of the other seven defendants remain under seal, as they have not yet been…
Last week the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the sentence of Geovanys Guevara, remanding the case to the Southern District of Florida (Miami Division) for resentencing. Guevara, of Hialeah, was convicted by a federal jury in 2015 of three counts of causing a car dealership in Miami to file false reports of cash payments over $10,000, specifically Form 8300,…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an eight-count civil complaint against Palm Beach real estate developer Robert Matthews and another businessman, Joseph Walsh, Sr., accusing them of securities fraud for misusing millions of dollars solicited from foreign investors for the long-troubled Palm House hotel-condominium project in Palm Beach. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District…