Briefs PROPERTIES TO PAY CREDITORS

ASPEN» A bankrupt real estate developer under federal investigation for securities fraud is in the process of unloading 130 high-end properties in California and Colorado worth more than $650 million to help pay back its creditors.

But no one is getting a deep discount on the Woodbridge Group of Co. properties, including at least 17 in the Aspen area.

“They all range from single-family homes in Aspen Glen or River Valley Ranch, and there are some in Snowmass,” said Laura Gee, who was the managing broker of Woodbridge Realty Unlimited, an affiliate of Woodbridge Group of Co.

The SEC has claimed that investors were cheated out of $1.2 billion through a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Robert Shapiro, who denies the charges.

Karval official acquitted on 6 charges.

A Lincoln County jury has acquitted the superintendent of the Karval School District on six of the seven child sexual assault charges against him.

The jury could not reach a decision on the seventh charge against Kenneth Cody Weber.

A judge on Friday declared a mistrial on a charge of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, pattern of abuse, according to a Mon- day news released by Vikki Migoya, spokeswoman for District Attorney George Brauchler.

Tesla had autopilot on.

CITY» The driver SALT LAKE of a Tesla electric car had the vehicle’s semi-autonomous Autopilot mode engaged when she slammed into the back of a Utah fire truck over the weekend, in the latest crash involving a car with self-driving features.