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Cases / Real estate

Michael Franks LLC

Michael Morawski, Frank Constant

ReportedMay 10, 2011
LocationSleepy Hollow, IL
Amount$16,000,000

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Company / entity
Michael Franks LLC
Industry
Multi-family residential real estate / real estate funds (promissory notes)
How investors were recruited
Commissions paid to people who raised new funds; quarterly newsletters
Pitch & red flags
Returns "between seven and nine percent annually, and potentially more upon the sale of the property"; real-estate funds paying "between 8 and 30 percent per year"

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Source

FBI official

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