Charleston property manager gets prison for defrauding communities of more than $700K (SC)

A former property manager has been sentenced to federal prison for defrauding numerous homeowner associations in the Charleston area of more than $700,000.  Karen Colie, 46, who owned Marshland Communities on Johns Island, was sentenced Tuesday to 2½ years in prison after she pleaded guilty last fall to one count of wire fraud.   Read the article…………………….

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