California Real Estate Fraud Report

This report spotlights real estate professionals and businesses lacking the ethics and conscience to treat their fellow humans in a fair, honest and upstanding manner. It is a clearinghouse for real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, loan fraud and appraisal fraud occurring in California, especially Los Angeles and Southern California. - Monique Bryher

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D.A. Investigating Century 21 Owner in Modesto

District Attorney investigators in Modesto are looking into more complaints against Century 21 Apollo owner Jim Lankford, who was recently charged with defrauding the heir of a dead woman. Now he is being accused of swindling a large part of another widow’s family fortune.

Just two weeks ago, Lankford, obstetrician Dennise Davis and Lankford’s Century 21 broker and co-owner Stelios Papadopoulos were charged with forgery, filing a fraudulent document with the county recorder, providing false information to a lender to obtain a mortgage loan and two counts of grand theft. Additionally, Papadopoulos faces a sixth count of deed-of-trust fraud.

Read the Full Article in the Modesto Bee.

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