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Con Artists Play Troubling Game: Grand Theft Home
Wanda Walker, who lost her Fort Washington house last year, at a news conference Thursday. "I'm angry and very disgusted," she said.
(By Lois Raimondo -- The Washington Post)
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Walker also contends that she never got the money listed as having been paid to her on a quit-claim deed filed with the county clerk's office. "He has the amount of consideration of $157,290 . . . and I haven't been paid that nor has my mortgage company," Walker said.
Brown's lawyer, Ronald M. Miller, said this week that he was "hesitant to answer questions because the matter is still in litigation."
"This was not a predatory lending situation," he said. Brown "does debt counseling and rearranging of debt to avoid foreclosure," Miller said. He "made an arrangement with [Walker]" in which RCB "bought [the house]" using his own money and "money from an investor as well to help prevent the foreclosure."
Miller added that Walker "is the wrong alleged victim to be arguing this after having a jury trial and losing, and filing an appeal and having dropped her appeal."
Walker said she dropped the appeal of her eviction because she could not afford to post a $250,000 bond.
Ralph Sapia, Walker's lawyer, said he is trying to appeal a recent Circuit Court ruling against Walker. But he acknowledges that his client and her two children are facing an uphill battle.
Walker, a federal employee, said she cannot believe that she has lost the first house she ever bought, and to someone who won her trust "by saying he used to be a police officer and that he knew my ex-husband."
She added: "This is a lesson learned. I can't say I can't trust anybody no more, but you have to be very, very careful who you trust, who you confide in."
