Miles Burton Marshall (aka Burt Marshall)
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- Industry
- Rental real estate fund ("8% Fund") run by tax preparer/insurance agent
- How investors were recruited
- His own tax-preparation and insurance clients in Madison County, NY (988 investors); cited churches, fire companies and doctors as fellow investors
- Pitch & red flags
- guaranteed "eight percent yearly returns"; money "primarily used to purchase property, refurbish rental houses"; "Churches invest. Fire companies invest. Doctors invest."; false account statements
Pitch phrases from this case
- “churches invest. fire companies invest. doctors invest”
- “eight percent yearly returns”
- “primarily used to purchase property, refurbish rental houses”