Bidders will get a shot this week to buy an unfinished waterfront home in Fort Lauderdale and luxury vehicles, as a receiver seeks to recover money for 15,000 consumers who lost more than $80 million to an alleged debt relief scheme operated in Pompano Beach and Panama.
Last year, U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga entered a preliminary injunction that halted the operation led by South Florida residents Jeremy Lee Marcus, Craig Smith and Yisbet Segrea. Their business, the Federal Trade Commission and the Florida State Attorney General alleged in a civil complaint, used more than a dozen different companies including 321 Loans Inc., Helping America Group, Instahelp America Inc. and Financial Freedom National …
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