Bankruptcy lawyers allege Bay Area real estate firm transferred millions of dollars to co-founder’s mother-in-law

It was hardly a surprise when attorneys representing various interests in the LeFever Mattson bankruptcy case dragged Tim LeFever into mediation last month.

LeFever is a co-founder of the dismantled company, along with longtime friend Ken Mattson, now accused by federal prosecutors of operating a Ponzi scheme that bilked potentially hundreds of clients out of tens of millions of dollars over at least 15 years.

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