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By Lindsay Rogers In 2018, Marshall Mayer co-founded a crowdfunding campaign called Let’s Buy an Island. The goal of founderss and funders alike was to purchase a private, uninhabited island to later develop into a “profit-making enterprise.” By 2019, after having sold nearly 100 shares for $3,250 each, the group had secured more than $250,000 worth of funding — enough to buy a 1.2-acre island off the coast of Belize called Coffee Caye. But, as it turns out, a small slice of the paradise pie wasn’t all that investors wound up with. That’s because, per a new report from CNN, founding members ar…