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Indictments issued in HUD scam

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A Florida man was indicted Thursday of defrauding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development through his real estate company after 4 of his employees pleaded guilty. Eugene McReath of Panama City,Fl. owns Southern Construction and Investments, a Birmingham,Al. based company that buys,renovates and sales houses for a profit. According to the indictment. Many of the houses that McReath sold were financed with HUD loans. McReath is accused of paying his buyers down payments,then falsely telling HUD that the down payments came from relatives of the home buyers. The prosecutors say McReath lied to HUD to get around the department's policy of not insuring home loans when a seller make a down payment.
 
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Re: Indictments issued in HUD scam

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by MrREI on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 @ 01:39 PM EDT
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IOW why would they not want to insure it if the seller made the down payment? That's the part I don't understand


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Re: Indictments issued in HUD scam

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by MrREI on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 @ 01:37 PM EDT
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"The prosecutors say McReath lied to HUD to get around the department's policy of not insuring home loans when a seller make a down payment"

Am I misreading this? should it read when a seller DOES not make a down payment?


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Source?

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by hibby76 on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 @ 05:14 PM EDT
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Could you post a source for this news article?


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Downpayment or Charitable gift?

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by KeithBender on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 @ 11:51 PM EDT
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I am amazed that one would have to falsify those DP's as a gift when all you got to do is look at the Governments web site to learn how to do the exact same thing legally!!!!

YES!! Legal 100%, maybe some regulation prohibits repeated Donations that further a business enterprise's use of this technique,but they recognize the use of a 501 c3 tax exempt charitable organization to act as a conduit that gets around their very own regulations.

Thats the other half of this story . And once again we have proof that ignorance costs dearly. Proves the worth of this web site for learning purposes alone.

Wannabe's will focus on the negatives, thinking that investing has its shadow world of criminal activity, fraud and deception.

When it's really a perfect example of Dumb and Dumber trying figure out how to get on the bus.Stubborn hard heads should not be confused with persistance and determination that are essential components of a serious entreprenuer's character.

Invest in yourself first and live your return on investment. Education is not optional, if you stick around long enough, you pay for it anyway, but we call it growth.

Okay, I'm off my soap box, thanks.


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