Jennifer Wilkov, a Montague Street financial advisor, plead guilty yesterday to stealing over $1.6 million from investors in bogus real estate deals. Wilkov had two cohorts in the "fix and flip scam". She's also the author of Dating Your Money:
Brooklyn Eagle: Brooklyn Heights Financial…: Wilkov, 39, admitted she used her job at American Express Financial Advisors to find victims in New York City to invest in a fraudulent scheme to fix up houses in California and resell them for big profits.
Prosecutors said Wilkov and two accomplices told investors they planned to buy single-family houses in Southern California worth up to $1 million, renovate and sell them, and share the profits with investors. Investors never received any money.[via McBrooklyn]
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And now, your moment of Zen courtsey of Wilkov's book bio:
Not only a best selling author and publisher, Jennifer is also a Certified Financial Planner practitioner, and she is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, hypnotherapist, and Time Line therapist. She runs multiple businesses including her flagship company – Evolutionary Strategic Planning, Inc. – and makes a contribution to others in every way possible. Jennifer is a constant student of life and becomes the change she wants to see in the world.
An incredible entrepreneur and wunderkind, in the field of medicine Jennifer also cured herself of a severe and degenerative case of Crohn's disease from which she suffered for over 25 years. After two surgeries and a grim prognosis, Jennifer quit the conventionally prescribed, processed food diet and instead, followed her own intuition and began eating raw fruits and vegetables. Today she is symptom free and a recognized resource for doctors and patients looking for alternative treatments for this disease.
Jennifer is excellent at seeing what's possible, formulating a personalized strategic plan, attracting a dynamic championship team of people, and building a positive project environment to produce an extraordinary opportunity for the reading consumer and the gifted people who created it.
