Sentences with phrase «posing as real estate agents»
Experts are warning homebuyers against scammers who are posing as real estate agents or lawyers to steal their closing costs.
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Foreigners are being hired to pose as celebrities by Chinese real - estate developers to help agents sell property in «ghost towns» by making them appear more animated and worldly, according to a new mini-documentary released by The New York Times.
The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.
A former New York state assemblyman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught in a sting operation accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.
According to a criminal complaint, Smith met with an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer and agreed to bribe leaders of Republican county committees around New York City.
An undercover FBI agent posed as a corrupt real estate developer as part of the federal government's investigation into the alleged bribery scheme.
According to city campaign finance records, the campaign paid Tabone $ 3,000 on Feb. 16 — two days after the aide allegedly took a hefty cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent posing as a real estate developer, according to the criminal complaint.
The Brooklyn Democrat was accused of accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.
Yesterday, the F.B.I. arrested Councilman Dan Halloran and State Senator Malcolm Smith for allegedly attempting to bribe Republican party officials and also, in the case of Halloran, planning to redirect City Council member items to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in exchange for money.
Former Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., a Democrat, was sentenced to 14 years in prison last month for a scheme to take bribes from FBI agents posing as real estate investors as well as a carnival promoter looking for help with local permits
Halloran was accused, among other things, of offering to redirect some of his Council money to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in return for cash payments.
Boyland faces up to 19 years in prison after he was convicted in March 2014 of trying to solicit bribes from federal agents posing as real - estate developers.
Out of nearly 50,000 licenced real estate registrants in the GTA, instead of choosing 10 random agents, the CBC chose 10 agents that had the most «double ending» transactions (whereby they represented both buyer and seller) and then posed as potential buyers and asked the agents what would be the benefit of buying the home through them versus another agent.
More state REALTOR ® associations are warning their members about a flood of suspicious phone calls that real estate agents are receiving from a man posing as a prospective buyer who then takes the conversation too personal.
When to consider it: If you or someone else may have been the victim of criminal conduct by a person who is (or poses as) a real estate agent, mortgage broker, etc..