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Cases / Real estate

Edward William Farley

ReportedNov 5, 2009
LocationHoschton, GA
Amount$20,000,000

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Company / entity
Creative Home Search, Southern Land Partners, Georgia Land Group, Global Mortgage, Alliance Resource Management
Industry
Real estate and mortgage lending / promissory notes
How investors were recruited
Recruited often unqualified investor/borrowers to buy properties from his companies, using false income and bank documents.
Pitch & red flags
Promissory notes "falsely promising ARM investors an interest rate between 14 percent and 60 percent"; same property used to "fully secure" multiple lenders.

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Source

FBI official

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