With me so far? Add into the mix a group of community activists, realtors and journalists from the area that the home was busted out in that are furious and fed up with all of the real estate fraud going on in their area. Now lets introduce a task force that's made up of people from local government, local police and concerned members of the real estate industry all who have had their task force highly publicized and claim that they're going to come down on real estate fraud with an iron fist. Imagine what would happen if the first group of concerned citizens went to one of the Task Force's meetings and started raising a fuss over the task forces inaction towards the rampant fraud that's going on in their community that's ruining property values, increasing property taxes and leaving empty homes that are in disrepair in their neighborhood. Now, this creates a bit of a conundrum for the task force members, some of which are trying to win tens of millions of dollars from the federal government so that they can sell a nationwide mortgage fraud task force modeled after their own task force and possibly garner some sort of position on this nationwide task force. With the one year anniversary of the task forces first arrests, the task force is slipping from the public conscience and needs a headline case not only to prove that they're still relevant but also to help push through the legislation for the creation of the nationwide task force.
Now, a case comes along that has everything needed to make "Joe Citizen" who's reading about it in the paper shake his head and thank god that this task force exists, let's say for example it went like this...
- Victim gets his identity stolen for a nearly half a million dollar fraud (that's a great number that will get peoples eyes rolling).
- Everyone involved in the fraud is young and Hispanic (you know those Latins are crooks!)
- The attorney whose office closed the transaction is young and successful (how could she be if she wasn't a crook?)!
- Home was purchased just a week before the fraud occurred for a third of what the fraudsters sold it for (they must be guilty, anyone making money must have done something wrong).
Now, the word goes down the line to the rookie Detective on the street and to the "Veteran" prosecutor that are working on this case to bring it in ASAP no matter what. All sorts of details are overlooked, documents fabricated, testimony manipulated, etc in effort to bring in the case on a deadline. Regardless of how the case was put together, the task force gets its case on the anniversary of its first arrests, there's a media blitz, the task force once again becomes relevant in peoples minds, it's members and creators get all sorts of accolades, federal money comes rolling in and life is wonderful. It's a feel good moment and now we're winning the fight against mortgage fraud! Sort of like this...
Ya think? We'll see where it went wrong tomorrow...
Almost forgot, only 5 days left till the Barrera mortgage fraud case goes to trial...
ReplyDeleteDon't get your hopes up, there's no way thus is going to trial next week.
ReplyDelete12:09, what's the basis for your theory? Everything I see points to showtime for 5/10?!
ReplyDelete1:49, I thought the summary you were looking for was of the docs that they don't want to give us?? I'll have something posted where you told me tonight at 10:00 pm.
ReplyDeleteNot a chance of going to trial, internal strife at the sao.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that, can we get some details?
ReplyDeleteAlso, 1:49 we can edit, feel free to make corrections. As far as what I requested, they passed me off to a senior advisor who's refusing my requests.
1:49, you got it. Check it at 10 pm.
ReplyDelete1:49, I posted but it's not showing up yet. Check back in 20.
ReplyDelete1:49, its up. Check it out.
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