Notorious Airbnb Host Charged with Allegedly Running $8.5M Nationwide Scam | Shray Goel is charged with running an Airbnb scam across 100 U.S. properties.::Shray Goel is charged with running an Airbnb scam across 100 U.S. properties.
Best part of the article:
“Goel’s scheme was uncovered in an in-depth investigation by reporter Allie Conti in 2019, who detangled the plot after being double-booked at one of his properties in Chicago and receiving a suspicious last-minute cancellation. Conti was contacted by the FBI days after the article was published.”
I wish there was more of this. Good investigative journalism has been one of the most powerful weapons in justice, and I fear it’s diminishing rapidly.
Investigative journalism died the day the local newspapers stopped selling their local markets and became megaphones of a few nationwide companies owned by the same politically well connected donors.
And yes I fucking salivate everytime I read one of these articles.
The FBI doesn’t fuck around.
for allegedly masterminding a nationwide scam that systematically double-booked guests to rake in profits.
Goel would set up separate listings for the same property at different prices, according to the indictment, then cancel the lower-priced rental with excuses about bad plumbing…If Goel is convicted, the government could force him to forfeit all of the properties, according to the indictment.
Please make them sec. 8
Please make them sec. 8
Please make them sec. 8
Is anything like that on the table here, legally?
I mean, is this something that would lead to the properties being seized, or would he just be fined and maybe just have to sell or have the bank claim them?
Article states that if he is found guilty, the properties will be seized.
I didn’t read closely enough, thanks
Capitalism breeds innovation!
The innovation:
The linked in-depth article by Allie Conti was a good read too. I would’ve done a charge-back, regardless of the blow back. Fuck AirBnB - they should be complicit in this.
There was a shooting near my house on New years Eve, someone rented an AirBNB to throw a party and a rival gang member did a driveby. This could be your neighbors…
