BEND, Ore. (AP) — Mark Neuman, Timothy Larkin and Lane Lyons said they never meant to defraud anyone when they invested client money into dozens of personal real estate deals and loans to Central Oregon businesses, friends and family. But a federal jury this month found the three co-owners of Bend-based Summit 1031 Exchange guilty of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, funneling $75 million into their investments over nearly 10 years without telling clients. The Summit case was just one of several multimillion-dollar fraud cases built around Central Oregon's red-hot real estate market in the last decade. The housing bubble...
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