nanigodsmum
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My very good friend is very naive .please remember this when you read what happened. She is a nurse and her "friend". was (is) also a nurse. lets call my friend SC and her friend VA. So VAs boyfriend came to hawaii from calif. where his corp is. He told SC that if she had $100k to invest he could get her 3% a month. She took out the $100k and gave it to him and she got a promissary note from him. Then he told her he had 2 properties in La. for sale and he was going to remodel them and she could make a good return on her money. She paid cash for the 2 properties. The closing was done in La. and at a title co., She did not buy title insurance and did not need to have a lawyer present as she was paying cash. VAs boyfriend (lets call him RDC) was present and the woman from the title co. That was it. Well RDC made a few pmts. to her for the $100k . He then stopped them. She kept asking VA what is going on. and VA would just say she did not know. Well it came down to La. county started sending her "tickets" for the grass being too high and then the tax collector started with the property tax bills. She thought she would sell them and called a realtor in La. who found an interested party. This realtor told her the party looked up any liens and found one for $90k that someone had on the properties. When i looked up the tax records or the property i could not find any liens. Well she called this person with the lien and he said yes RDC owed him that money. It has come to this .. She got an attorney in hawaii. and he is ripping her off (so far) 20k for writing 3 letters and is now taking RDC to court to get an order to try to attach wages or property or what ever. He has a corp. and a web site and it is under RDC incorp. in calif. I must say at this point that i believe the "friend" VA is in on it. She drives a porche with plates that say "got money". She sends her daughter to a very expensive private school and also owns a couple properties in hawaii. She does this on an LPNs salary. I told SC to call the FBI and report it and she did. When she told me he would not take the case i called the man and he told me " well we cannot say it was misrepresentation as he never told her he was going to invest it in any specific fund or co." This is true that she never asked him. Like I said she is very very naive. She also went to the police and they fowarded her to the FBI. I also told her to write to the IRS as I am sure this couple spends a lot more than they make. Can anyone tell me what she can do?? Her attorney keeps charging her for "reviewing the file" and that is everytime she talks to him. She told him that her total amount she could spend on an attorney was 20K and he acknowledged this . She is a little over that amount now. I feel bad for her as she got ripped off very badly. The money was her savings and a loan she took out on the equity on her home. Also 80k was from her mother and she has not told her any of this yet. Any help or advise anyone can give will be appreciated. Thank you in advance. I also believe the title co. could be in on it as they told her they were only given the $300 for the notary part in it.
