MANHATTAN — The SEC claims in a federal complaint that Suneet Singal, 41, of El Dorado Hills, Calif., First Capital Real Estate Trust Inc., and two similarly named companies lied about owning 12 hotels to raise $15 million from investors, of which he misappropriated more than $2 million.
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