SEC Charges Elie Schwartz With Defrauding Investors, Seeks Permanent Injunction
The financial regulator's lawsuit reveals new details about how the CEO of Nightingale Properties shifted investor money around.
The financial regulator's lawsuit reveals new details about how the CEO of Nightingale Properties shifted investor money around.
The former CEO of Nightingale Properties has until July 23 to report to the work camp at FCI Otisville to serve an 87-month sentence for wire fraud.
Prosecutors recommended that the Nightingale Properties CEO serve at least six and a half years in prison on one charge of fraud.
Investors burned by Schwartz include physicians, real estate investors, a candy manufacturer and a plumbing contractor.
Anna Phillips, who is representing the bankrupt entities associated with the crowdsourcing investors, said Schwartz would remit some funds.
Distributions to investors have paused after an unexpected IRS penalty. So far, less than 20% of the misappropriated funds have been recovered.
Nightingale Properties surrendered its 1601 Washington Ave. Miami Beach office building in lieu of foreclosure.
Simon Singer says Newmark shouldn't be able to collect because it hasn't been transparent about its role in his former business partner's $63M fraud.
The independent manager overseeing the CrowdStreet investor entities also said she had reached a settlement agreement with the scandal-plagued developer.
Nightingale CEO Elie Schwartz agreed to a quarterly repayment plan for roughly $50M total.
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