Businessman, Lawyer Get Prison Time in $33M Forgery Plot

Oct. 21, 2017, 12:04 AM UTC

A Southern California businessman and a lawyer from Arizona were sentenced Oct. 17 to 135 months and 81 months, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $33 million in loan proceeds from real estate lenders by forging documents (United States v. Greenberg, S.D. Cal., No. 3:16-cr-01077, sentencing 10/17/17); (United States v. Gettel, S.D. Cal., No. 3:16-cr-01099, sentencing 10/17/17).

Judge William Q. Hayes ordered Courtland Gettel, who ran a real estate investment firm called Conix Inc. or Variant Commercial Real Estate (VCRE), to spend 135 months in prison followed by three years of ...

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