What is it about Holidays that brings out the silly folk in droves? Maybe they’re always there- just more noticeable when they’re in packs. Monday felt like Sunday- a combination of the bank being closed, the bars open and my liver desperately trying to replenish itself amid waves and waves of PBR. But that’s all over now and I’m back into the full swing of things for the rest of the week and already we’ve met w/ Napoleon for the day. And already there’s a big story, as one of my customers was arrested and now I guess his deal is “DEAD,” as we say around here. I guess that deal will go into the ‘uncloseable deals’ file collecting in one of my bottom drawers at work.
He’s an idiot- that I knew from two phone conversations with the guy- I guess his law degree didn’t prevent his case of the stupids from growing big enough to cause him to be facing felony charges for attempted mortgage fraud.
“Hmm, let’s see, we do business in a county that’s continually ranked in the top-five counties in mortgage fraud volume in the country, so let’s do a deal and rip-off another uniformed lender and make some quick bucks off it- no one will notice. Seriously. It happens all the time and I’m a real estate attorney, I know these things.”
“That sounds like a risk-proof-get-rich-easily-no-one’s-gonna-get-busted plan, I’m in!”
Or so it went for the six idiots that got arrested I suppose. What happens to these people, can greed be that blinding? Don’t answer that. Can the need for money make you that dumb?
Of course, it is just alleged at this point and everyone is innocent until proven guilty and perhaps this man will be cleared of any wrong doing and the GBI agents that posed as power of attorney’s for the sellers will be shown as the incompetent investigators they really are. And we’ll have other Holidays to celebrate and this smart lawyer guy won’t be disbarred and on a long Holiday of his own any time soon.
He’s an idiot- that I knew from two phone conversations with the guy- I guess his law degree didn’t prevent his case of the stupids from growing big enough to cause him to be facing felony charges for attempted mortgage fraud.
“Hmm, let’s see, we do business in a county that’s continually ranked in the top-five counties in mortgage fraud volume in the country, so let’s do a deal and rip-off another uniformed lender and make some quick bucks off it- no one will notice. Seriously. It happens all the time and I’m a real estate attorney, I know these things.”
“That sounds like a risk-proof-get-rich-easily-no-one’s-gonna-get-busted plan, I’m in!”
Or so it went for the six idiots that got arrested I suppose. What happens to these people, can greed be that blinding? Don’t answer that. Can the need for money make you that dumb?
Of course, it is just alleged at this point and everyone is innocent until proven guilty and perhaps this man will be cleared of any wrong doing and the GBI agents that posed as power of attorney’s for the sellers will be shown as the incompetent investigators they really are. And we’ll have other Holidays to celebrate and this smart lawyer guy won’t be disbarred and on a long Holiday of his own any time soon.
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