Capital Briefs: Investor Gets 6 Months for Deceiving RTC

A federal judge in Boston sentenced Tully Plesser to six months in jail on Dec. 20 for lying to the Resolution Trust Corp. and producing bogus documents.

The government charged that Mr. Plesser was one of several investors who personally guaranteed a $43 million loan from Home Owners Savings Bank to build luxury condominiums on Burroughs Wharf in Boston.

The RTC tried to collect the loan from Mr. Plesser after the Boston- based savings bank failed in 1990. But the government charged that Mr. Plesser tried to mislead the agency into believing that he no longer owned the collateral. Mr. Plesser already has paid $3.1 million in restitution and $100,000 in fines to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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