The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued civil proceedings against Matthew J. Skinner of Santa Clarita, California and five entities he owns and controls – Empire West Equity Inc., Bayside Equity LP, Longacre Estates LP, Freedom Equity Fund LLC, and Simple Growth LLC – for conducting four unregistered and fraudulent real estate investment offerings between 2015 and 2020, through which, it is alleged, he raised more than USD9 million from over 100 investors.
