Oregon business owners get prison time in $18M real estate investment fraud

A judge Thursday sentenced the two owners of a Tigard-based real estate investment business to federal prison terms exceeding a prosecutor’s recommendations for bilking investors out of a total of $18 million.

U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon called Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Trisotto’s sentencing proposals “just too low.”

He then issued a sentence of five years and three months to Robert D. Christensen, 56, of Sherwood, and a sentence of two years and nine months to Anthony M. Matic, 56, of Damascus…

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