How a Cut Scale and an Orange Stake Sent a Broker to Prison
How a Cut Scale and an Orange Stake Sent a Broker to PrisonA single four-inch orange fiberglass stake appeared sixty feet inside a padlocked chain-link fence on Hendricks Spur, in undisturbed grass with no tracks - and that small object helped bring a licensed broker before a jury on six criminal counts. But it was a paralegal’s habit of placing a physical ruler against a survey’s scale bar that exposed a one-number alteration which turned eighty acres into forty and triggered an eighty-seven thousand dollar fraud case; how did one cut scale and one stake unravel an entire scheme?In this…
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