She mentioned some model on how it would work, and had it such where she had it all figured out, so she would be the central manager of the scheme.

I don't recall exact numbers, but I took her scheme and built a simple model and did all the inputs and looked up the land values she was talking about and it was some horrid pyramid where she wound up with a large amount of the money (as if the plan wasnt to just outright steal all the money in the first place)

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Its really fun too look into the finances of organizations/schemers/whatever.

I dove into the finances of the Salvation Army of California after they did a filing - and HOLY SMOKES that is an outright grift of epic proportions on the down low...

The other, not criminal - just eye-opening, was I went through the budget for San Francisco Public Health, specifically what services they were providing to the homeless population. What was eye-opening, was that basically the budget worked out to $25,000 per year all-in per homeless person.

I would really like to do some of these discoveries again using gpt to ask the questions I was manually extracting previously...

Regarding Detroit, thats also unfortunate that they didn't go for an established REIT or something, where everyone has legal stake. There's tons of legal precedent for setting up shares (similar to co-ops), just the fact that she wasn't going that route is a huge red flag and indicator it's a scam.