Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. "An accused sex tour operator and a high-ranking Brooklyn court official were among nine people indicted Tuesday in a $1.4 million mortgage fraud scheme that featured stolen identities and an elaborate series of masquerades." The Chief Deputy County Clerk in Brooklyn (the brother of a Brooklyn judge) was allegedly the paid attorney for the scammers, who bought and sold several properties. The sex tour operator who was part of this thing was running them to Asia, however, out of a Queens travel agency. There are fraudulent mortgages, sad tales of elderly widows facing foreclosure, etc. [NYDN;NYP]
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