Con artists stole billions in 2022, and many of the fraudsters are your Texas neighbors, writes columnist Chris Tomlinson.
. Gunn was passing around documents showing that he had a purchase agreement for a bar called J Durham. He needed partners to put in $75,000 in return for half the company, according to the commission’s order.
after he pleaded guilty to identity fraud in 2010. He was sentenced to 61 months in prison and four years of supervised release, which ended in early 2022. Some people think you cannot go wrong investing in real estate, but Tommie “Tom” Carter Jr. of Austin proved that you can.Carter’s Tristar Equities sold promissory notes guaranteeing an annual yield ranging from 9.25 percent to 11.25 percent. Neither Carter nor the notes were registered with the state's Securities Board, which made them illegal. Worse, though, he was using new investor money to pay off early investors, a scam known as a Ponzi scheme.
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