Utah man accused of $28 million Ponzi scheme declines to plead guilty

An Orem man who was scheduled to plead guilty to charges related to an alleged $28 million Ponzi scheme declined to do so at a federal court hearing on Tuesday.

Events had arisen that caused Chad Roger Deucher to not enter a guilty plea, his attorney, Matthew Howell, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells.

Howell did not specify what had occurred to cause Deucher to change his mind.

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Investors put in about $28 million into Deucher's real estate investment company, called Marquis Properties, and 170 of them lost about $16 million, according to the indictment.

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