Real estate developer sentenced in $2.7M mortgage scheme

Plant City resident Marek Harrison was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison and must pay more than $2.7 million in restitution.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 1:06 p.m. February 19, 2020
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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PLANT CITY — Real estate developer Marek Harrison, of Plant City, has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for a mortgage fraud scheme uncovered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the FBI. He has also been ordered to pay more than $2.7 million in restitution to financial institutions that were defrauded.

 

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