Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
It’s one thing to make a deal. It’s another to execute on the business plan agreed to in the deal you make. Matthew Skinner calls himself a deal maker. The Securities and Exchange Commission says that he didn’t execute on his deals. Mr. Skinner was building a real estate empire, developing residential properties in southern … Read more »
The Securities and Exchange Commission publishes its Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Action List annually, setting up items that the SEC is working on or thinking about working on. Occasionally, we learn of something new. Usually, it’s a fairly boring exercise to meet the requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act. There was one surprise … Read more »
Last week, the sentence of Michael Jarigese was upheld by an appellate court. Mr. Jarigese had been sentenced to 41 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release in connection with a bribery case. Mr. Jarigese was the vice president of Castle Construction Corporation, and the president of its successor company, Tower Contracting LLC, … Read more »
Randy King, his son Matthew King, and Andrea Trout founded and ran The Legacy Group, Inc. a real estate investment firm based in Colorado Springs. The firm’s business model was to provide mezzanine loans to real estate projects. These Legacy mezzanine loans would be junior to the secured mortgage loans on the project. Legacy raised … Read more »
New York City passed a law imposing specific requirements on real estate owners in the city. As buildings are becoming “smarter” landlords are collecting more data about the building coming in, moving around inside, and exiting from their buildings. This is largely for good intentions. It makes the elevators more efficient. It makes the heating … Read more »
Knight Nguyen Investments raised millions from its retail investor clients to invest in securities that met the firm’s investment criteria: (a) always allocate “secured” capital to attract at least 10% returns, and would select entities (b) with taxable income to support returns and that often do over $10 million of revenue; (c) that are … Read more »
Peter Quartararo met with potential investors and told them that he had access to “pre-IPO” stock in Peloton, WeWork, and Airbnb. The first potential investor was an acquaintance that had done a favor for Mr. Quartararo. He offered to let the investor buy the shares in WeWork and AirBnB at his cost, with was less … Read more »
Zach Horwitz was struggling actor using the stage name “Zach Avery.” His IMDB entry lists him in minor parts in mostly bad movies. His biggest movie role is an uncredited part as a medic in Brad Pitt’s “Fury.” Mr. Horowitz couldn’t figure out how to get rich and famous, but he did hatch a plan … Read more »
These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. The Bizarre Case of Snowden and a Get-Rich-Quick Real Estate Investing ConferenceJack PoulsonVice.com Edward Snowden joined an online “elite real estate investment club” Saturday afternoon, spoke for several minutes about whistleblowing, called out one of the hosts for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, … Read more »
I think many frauds start with a failure to recognize mistakes. Yes, it’s hard to tell your investors that you lost some of their money. It makes it harder to attract new investors and additional investments. It gets really hard to do that when you go to jail. Martin Silver was the co-founder, managing partner, … Read more »