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Civil RICO recovery for Argentine real estate investors caught in a U.S. real-estate fraud

Confidential matter · 2023

Argentine real estate investors were defrauded in a U.S. real-estate scheme. The fraud followed a classic and damaging pattern: the same property was sold to more than one buyer, leaving investors who had wired money from abroad holding nothing.

Recovery
Argentina
Financial Services
Real Estate

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Resolving an investor's exposure in a $170 million real-estate Ponzi case

Confidential matter · 2022

The SEC alleged that a real estate investment fund, which had raised about $170 million, operated as a real-estate-debenture Ponzi scheme. Our client, an executive of the fund, was swept into the enforcement action and faced the prospect of protracted litigation.

Settlement
United States (Federal)
Financial Services
Real Estate

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Representative Matter

Bank discovery for Argentine fraud victims

Helped obtain federal court authorization for discovery from Wells Fargo and Citibank on behalf of Argentine real estate investors defrauded in a scheme in which the same property was sold to multiple buyers. An Argentine judge had requested the U.S. bank account information, and the Section 1782 petition opened that access.

Argentina
Cross-border
Financial Services
Real Estate

Representative Matter

U.S. bank records for Argentine criminal proceedings

Obtained federal-court authorization, on behalf of Argentine real estate investors, for Section 1782 discovery of U.S. bank-account information (approximately $10 million). An Argentine court had requested the records to support criminal proceedings in Argentina.

Argentina
Cross-border
Financial Services
Real Estate

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Civil RICO recovery for Argentine real estate investors caught in a U.S. real-estate fraud

Resolving an investor's exposure in a $170 million real-estate Ponzi case

Bank discovery for Argentine fraud victims

U.S. bank records for Argentine criminal proceedings

On the conference circuit, across the hemisphere

Civil RICO recovery for Argentine real estate investors caught in a U.S. real-estate fraud

Resolving an investor's exposure in a $170 million real-estate Ponzi case

Bank discovery for Argentine fraud victims

U.S. bank records for Argentine criminal proceedings