A former Stouffville realtor with a history of committing fraudulent real estate deals has been arrested again, this time with her husband, in yet another alleged housing scheme.
Courtney Wallis Simpson, 57, from Uxbridge, was arrested July 13 and charged with multiple offences including fraud, uttering forged documents and breach of trust. None of the most recent charges have been proven in court.
Wallis Simpson was convicted and sentenced in 2007 to five years behind bars for large-scale real estate fraud.
That was in relation to mortgage fraud she perpetrated against 60 people during her time at York Region Realty Inc. in Stouffville, investigators said. Victims invested between $300,000 and $1.5-million in the scheme.
At the time, The Toronto Star quoted York Regional Police Det. Fred Kerr, who explained just how badly the fraud hit some people.
“Some people here have been financially wiped out,” he said.
Wallis Simpson’s father, Newman Wallis, a former dean at Seneca College, said at the time that the Real Estate Council of Ontario audited her three times and she passed each one.
After being granted full parole one year after sentencing, she was jailed again for breaking the conditions of her parole when she visited a home she was barred from attending.
It’s alleged investors that lost some $15-million as part of the scheme, some $6-million of which was recovered.
The most recent charges stem from alleged fraudulent real estate deals in several jurisdictions, Peel Regional…
