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Douglas Ross Zuber, Former Scottsdale Real Estate Exec Charged with $10M Theft

Douglas Ross Zuber, a former executive at a Scottsdale real estate development company has been charged with embezzling more than $10 million from the firm.

The Arizona Attorney General's Office says 40-year-old Douglas Ross Zuber of Phoenix funneled company cash into bank accounts he controlled. He then created fictitious vendors, opened bank accounts in their name and submitted invoices for payment to his employer.

Zuber was executive vice president at Harvard Investments, Inc. from 1999 through 2006. The company discovered and investigated the fraud and then turned the case over to the attorney general.

Zuber was indicted on one count of money laundering, one count of theft and one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices. A telephone listing for Zuber was disconnected.

Contract worker for Fannie Mae accused of selling appliances from foreclosures

Police say Jamie Pantastico sold appliances from foreclosed homes on Craiglist while he was a contract worker for Fannie Mae.

Chandler Police are looking for potential victims that may have been connected to a fraud scheme where appliances were re-sold from foreclosed homes.

Jamie Pantastico, 39, was employed by Fannie Mae as a contractor to clean foreclosed homes to prepare them for re-sale. He would enter the homes by having access to their lockboxes and take photographs of the appliances - then place ads on Craigslist.

Pantastico met potential buyers at the homes posing as the homeowner. After the appliances were sold and removed from the house, he would return the keys in the lockbox.

He was arrested in Queen Creek by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Chandler Police on September 25.

Victims are encouraged to call the Chandler Police Department at 480.782.4130.