Karen Hanover, a self-proclaimed commercial real estate guru was arrested last February of “Impersonating an FBI Agent” as I reported here. I am pleased to announce that she was found guilty of that crime and will be sentenced January 9, 2012. She faces up to 3 years in prison and up to $250,000 fine.
Unfortunately she hasn’t been arrested for the true crime committed: scamming people out of $30,000 in exchange for the promise to set you up in 2 pre-qualified commercial real estate deals, complete with funding assistance from her and her investors. She promises that you will be part of her “family”. I was there.
People wired funds directly into Karen Hanover’s bank account and they never heard from her again, with one exception: If you complained, you would get an intimidating call from her using a blocked caller ID and voice “spoofing” technology claiming to be an FBI agent and warning them to back off.
The fact she was arrested for this is a technicality compared to the awful crime she allegedly committed: Fraud.
She falls in my “evil” category. She seems sincere in her presentation. Watch the video below:
“A money back guarantee…Recorded…Contracts…” Wow. Some may wonder if she knew, during this presentation, that she was scamming them? That she never intended to help them into their first commercial real estate deal. It could be she saw all this money piling up in her bank account and then decided she was set. I say she knew. She knew because they wouldn’t accept the full amount on credit-cards. It had to be a wire transfer into her bank account.
When you use a credit card, whether for merchandise or services, if you didn’t get what you paid for, you have every right to dispute the credit card charge and get your money back. You have recourse.
I can only hope the ongoing investigation on her crimes results in some level of justice.