High-end retail complex properties in Kansas and Texas owned by the notorious Edward H. Okun have been put up for sale by a federal bankruptcy trustee.
The properties are the 1.1 million square foot West Oaks Mall in Houston, Texas, and the 587,512 square foot Salina Central Mall in Salina, Kansas.
Okun is alleged to be behind the 1031 exchange scam run by The 1031 Tax Group (1031TG) that defrauded thousands of people out of millions of dollars.
Okun was arrested in Miami, Florida, last month and charged with mail fraud, bulk cash smuggling, false statements, and forfeiture from a scheme to defraud and obtain millions of dollars in client funds held by The 1031 Tax Group.
Those who were defrauded by Okun’s 1031 Tax Group had hoped to recoup some of their missing funds from Okun’s remaining assets — including the West Oaks Mall and the Salina Central Mall — which were purchased from monies allegedly taken from victims in the 1031 exchange scam.
But the Okun-controlled companies that owned the malls declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October.
It is now unclear whether the proceeds from the sale of the properties would go Okun’s 1031 exchange scam victims.
Both properties apparently have a long line of creditors.
The trustee in the bankruptcy case has hired Keen Consultants, the new real estate division of KPMG Corporate Finance, to market both properties.
You can read our earlier post on Okun and his 1031 exchange scam here.
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I am also a victim of 1031-exchange scam, Replacement Property Solution in Denver, Co. The crooks Richard Darrow and Frederic Dryer are going for trials. No one really knows where has the money gone to???!!!
WOW can’t belive this? I knew him did not seem like the kind of guy to do something like this????