How a Miami Couple Used Empty Mansions to Pocket Millions

Southern Florida is awash with empty luxury properties. For one Miami couple and their accomplices, that looked like prime hunting ground for nearly $10 million in mortgage fraud. Their targets? Venezuela’s sanctioned elite. As WSJ’s Konrad Putzier reports, it was fun while it lasted.  Further Reading: - Florida Couple Turned the Empty Miami Mansions of Venezuela’s Elite Into Personal Piggy Banks  Further Listening: - An Undercover Operation to Reveal an Alleged Ponzi Scheme  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices