Robert Shapiro, the former Chief Executive Officer of Woodbridge Group of Companies, agreed to pay $120 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations he defrauded investors in a $1.2 billion real estate Ponzi scheme that drove his company into bankruptcy, according to court papers. Shapiro didn’t admit or deny the allegations. Shapiro promised returns of as high as 10 percent from investments in developers who flipped luxury real estate but instead their cash flowed into a web of related companies that Shapiro controlled, the SEC said.