
Josh Schuster pleaded guilty to securities fraud Friday and has agreed to forfeit $13M in assets to repay the victims of his Ponzi scheme therealdeal.com/new-york/2026/…
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Josh Schuster pleaded guilty to securities fraud Friday and has agreed to forfeit $13M in assets to repay the victims of his Ponzi scheme therealdeal.com/new-york/2026/…


Schuster pleaded not guilty in May.. he changed attorneys and now 9 mos later he intends to plead guilty to the securities fraud charge he faces up to 20 years in prison

Things for Schuster started to come undone when the money ran out and his partners booted him off several projects He moved to Florida and tried to reinvent himself as a solar-project developer, maintaining the whole time he'd done nothing illegal

Josh Schuster will plead guilty to running a $10M Ponzi scheme, according to prosecutors The developer took money from investors and used it to pay off former partners and fund his CC/gambling debts therealdeal.com/new-york/2026/…



When tenants die, a unit can sit vacant for over a year and cost thousands to recover. “Only in this city can a tenant pass away, go to the morgue, sit on ice for a year, and still delay giving the landlord possession back.” therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…







Scott Rechler closed his $1B deal for 590 Madison Ave with a loan from Apollo Global Management If you don't count Google's purchase of its NYC HQ in 2022, this is the largest New York purchase by an investor since 2018 therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/…





Here's a great bit from the New Yorker's profile on Howard Lutnick: Lutnick, who invests in Tether, invited a lobbyist from the company to a Trump admin group on regulating crypto “It is biologically painful for him to miss a business opportunity" newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
