Real Estate Scams
After his defeat, Carlson left town for several real estate and railroad schemes in Los Angeles, Alaska, and Cuba. In 1917 Carlson was caught in a scheme where he sold desert land multiple times to different people and was convicted of mail fraud. He served half of his sentenced time in federal prison, gaining an early release in 1920.
Carlson died 1937 in Los Angeles while in the middle of another shady real estate deal.
Read more about this topic: William H. Carlson
Famous quotes containing the words real and/or estate:
“Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)