Comments on: Mississippi Crime of the Week – Home Repair Fraud

By: mitch

mitch — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:34:06 +0000

Mississippi’s attorney generals office has charged numerous liscensed contractors with home repair fraud following hurricane Katrina. Many of these charges stemmed from homeowners that were dissatisfied with the quallity of the work they contracted for or simply wanted the state to assist them in getting a refund from the contractor for services provided.Many of these allegations are not properly investigated to determine if a crime actually took place to start with, instead are being pushed into the criminal justice system by overagresive investigators that simply don’t care if a crime actually occured or not.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:08:55 +0000

This home repair fraud should include “title defects” where fake titles are created by attorneys in trust transfers so that later fees for “correcting title defects” are money laundered through estates as estate expenses that qualify for tax deduction on Estate and Inheritance tax returns.

It should also include schemes through estate agents who freely give “repair concessions” to potential buyers to reduce the price of the real estate they are selling as part of the estate.

This would not harm the public if applied to personal property auctioneer appraisers eithers to whom estate property is consigned, controlled, and proceeds returned to corporate estate trustees.