The FBI raided one of Ken Mattson’s homes in Sonoma on Friday morning, the bureau’s San Francisco office confirmed.
The FBI made no arrests at the property. But agents visited Mattson’s home in the 3000 block of Castle Road, situated behind a coded gate in an exclusive area of unincorporated Sonoma County, northeast of the city of Sonoma, sometime in the morning.
Mattson, the suddenly embattled real estate developer and investment manager, is under intense scrutiny following a series of emails by his longtime business partner, Tim LeFever.
The emails detail improper transactions Mattson reportedly conducted and, according to LeFever, wrongly attributed to their co-owned companies.
Mattson, LeFever and their huge local real estate portfolio have been the subject of suspicion and resentment by Sonoma residents for several years. When profiled by The Press Democrat a little over a year ago, they owned at least 116 properties in and around the city — a number of them co-owned but most purchased by KS Mattson Partners, which is solely controlled by Mattson.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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