EB-5 Fraudster Sentenced To 3 Years In $160M Scheme

By Diana Novak Jones · February 21, 2017, 7:14 PM EST

A Chicago-area man who admitted to defrauding Chinese investors out of $160 million through the federal government's EB-5 visa program in a scheme prosecutors said was the largest EB-5 fraud to...

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August 27, 2014

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