November 24, 2014

Two Northern California real estate investors, Su Chu Chou “Terry” Cheng and Chung Li “George” Cheng, agreed to plead guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California. According to the government, between May 2008 and January 2011, George and Terry Cheng conspired with others not to bid against one another, and instead designated a winning bidder to obtain selected properties at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. To date, as a result of DOJ’s ongoing antitrust investigations into bid rigging and fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, 49 individuals have agreed to plead or have pleaded guilty. DOJ

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