CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015. A Florida businessman has been charged in federal court with running a Ponzi scheme involving the sale of bogus investments in his real estate development company. RICHARD L. THOMPSON, 60, induced investors to purchase shares in his real estate development company, Latten Management LLC, and to personally loan him money, on the false premise that his company owned more than two hundred acres of property in Tennessee, according to a criminal information filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Thompson took in approximately $2.1 million in the scheme, including $125,000 from an investor in west suburban Naperville, who purchased shares in Thompson’s company with funds from a retirement account, the information states.
