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Cases / Real estate

Jose Bello

ReportedApr 14, 2026
LocationFL
Amount$5,700,000

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Industry
Short-term real estate / storm-repair hard-money lending
How investors were recruited
Friends and family, Facebook and Discord
Pitch & red flags
"short-term, high-return loans for real estate transactions or storm damage repair"; "private lending," "gator lending," "hard-money lending"

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Source

U.S. Department of Justice official

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