Some of the neighborhoods of our city are exploring this model as a way to develop blighted areas and provide affordable housing. Here are some of the questions community activists have:

Are there issues of corruption? (The CLT board putting friends and family in homes instead of other deserving people, or the CLT otherwise using the trust for personal gain.)

Does it improve the lives of the urban poor and make a lasting difference? Does it work for affordable housing? Can the new residents placed in CLT homes afford the maintenance of a house instead of their subsidized apartment? Does it create sprawl and transportation problems for our urban poor by relocating them from urban apartments to arbitrary houses?

Does it have a positive impact on mortgage fraud? How does it affect the homeowners who live next to the CLT homes?

Web resources are appreciated, but I’m really looking for any personal experiences of the pro’s and con’s for this model of development.

My parents have a room in MHADA, Borivali area. A lady, who deals in MHADA rooms told us that she will sell our room, and will get us a FLAT in return, all we have to do is give her the amount we will get when we sell the room. And plus we will have to pay some more amount for new flat.
Agreeing to this, we sold the room, she gave us 6 lakhs cash for it. Next day she took those 6 lakhs back plus we gave her 2 lakhs more, total 8 lakhs. She said we will get a flat in a month. It has been 2 years now, she has not returned a single penny of those 8 lakhs, nor gave us a new flat.
I however, have the possession for that MHADA room, but she has taken the papers and signatures from my mother to transfer the ownership.
That ladys phone is off, no sign of her. All i have is on a stamp paper written that she has taken 8 lakhs from us, with her signature, and some blank cheques that she has given to us.
If we deposit those cheques, court will ultimately give her time to pay back, which she will never do, and she told us upfrontly that if u complain to the cops, your money is gone, she said she will give a share to cops and they will never investigate further.
After spending 8 lakhs, we dont have more amount to spend for hiring a lawyer and fighting a case, because ultimately she has kept her collar clean as its nowhere mentioned on paper that we sold her the room, its just mentioned that she has taken cash from us for some personal use.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION FOR THIS SITUATION NOW? HOW CAN I GET MY MONEY BACK?

So this person I work with keeps on bragging on how she told her auto insurance company she drives her car for 7500 miles per year, but she usually goes 8000! She also says she told them it’s all for personal use, but I don’t buy it.

It’s not fair. Us honest drivers have to pay more because scum like her lie to the insurance companies.

Is there a way to report this? Or should I wait for karma to bite her? Insurance companies can find out if she is lying…right?

long story but in the end i need to know how to obtain pretty cheap real-legal advise (live in texas). my parents took my old credit cards and racked them up and didn’t pay and now i’m being hounded by creditors and my credit, which was perfect, is horrible now. parents are VERY poor already with 6 siblings still living with them and i don’t want anything bad to happen to the kids because of my parents’ stupid decisions. any ideas? i dont think suing would be the best idea because i’d never get the money since they don’t have any.

I would like to be a computer genius who could deduct a penny or so out of every millionaire’s (in the whole world) bank account every month. This crime, it could be argued, would harm no one, but would vastly help myself.

Unfortunately, I am not a computer genius. By the way, if someone commits the above-mentioned crime, I would be all in favor of prosecution. I am not saying that theft should not be punished. If any of you have read the book CATCH ME IF YOU CAN by Frank Abagnale, or seen the movie, you might be interested to learn that Abagnale today says that fraud is easier today than ever, due to computers. So, know ye where the criminals are.
Some of you have suggested that being a hit man might be a good criminal line to be in. But I remember how, in Calgary, a man who had done "hits" for a biker gang was murdered while he was stopping for gas near where I worked. It seems that a common first assignment for a new hit man is to murder the old hit man. Those who give the orders like to play it safe. That, by itself, all morality and humanity aside, would be enough to dissuade me from becoming a hit man.

I was having a fight with 2 friends, and it was about the legality of faking your own death.

Obviously, if you gain any money (ie Insurance Fraud), commit Identity Theft, desecrate a body, dodge any debts, or child-payments, get someone blamed for your murder, or do Anything against the law, then it’s illegial. Pretend none of those things happen.

It boiled down to this scenario:
Joe has no outstanding debts, has never been married, and has no children.

Joe pretends to be kidnapped. His friend Mac helps out. Mac sends several letters to Joe’s family, demanding a ransom and threatening Joe’s safety. (Mac has no intention of collecting ransom or hurting Joe.) After a few days, Mac stops, and Joe is never heard from again. Joe’s family assume Joe has been killed.

Joe continues to use his regular identification and pays taxes.

Is this scenario illegial, or just a nasty trick?
-Hoping someone in-the-know will settle this argument.

I want to be considered as a co-owner with my bf’s business. We have not filed any 1099’s but will suffer penalties if we must. I want to claim that I paid myself a salary of 27k which is just enough to cover my mortgage and car note. I am doing this so that I can claim the interest paid on my mortgage (in my name only) as well as a few other deductions such as medical. I also want to receive the stimulus rebate for me and my daughter. Is this tax fraud? What are potential problems? I DO in fact work with my husband on the business. We both make business decisions. We just never really formally "paid" me for my work.
Sorry. We are engaged and have been engaged for a year. And dating for 6. So I just started calling him hubby. for tax purposes, he is my bf.

Why is everyone saying I didn’t work? I DID work, I still DO work for the business. We are just trying to figure out the technicalities of the IRS. In fact, this business was started 3 years ago with a large chunk of my money as well. It just gets complicated because we never defined my position. I guess I am answering my own question. I know I worked for the business, so I guess I know it’s not fraud. But how do I prove that to the IRS? All my work is for nothing because we never filed a 1099? We can’t be the only business in the world that forgot to issue a 1099. What is it? Like a fine?

My company has decided to invest in a new software workflow. This workflow is advertised in white papers, tradeshows and media reports (web) by a well known company.
No where do the statements say that is is a "work in progress" or a "plan" but is advertised as working now. It isn’t.
My company is in fairly deep with time and energy and now are being pressured to pay for one of the components, when they can’t even tie together all 3 of the main components to create this "workflow". Recently during a meeting with the company in question we were told that they are not responsible for what their sales people tell us, because they are a publicly held company…that all the information we were given wasn’t written on corporate letterhead, therefore it means nothing and the company does not have to stand behind it. The sales person was just "incorrect" in their assumptions.
The emails and the conversations count for nada.
The software was sold as working, not as beta, yet they don’t even have the connectivity worked out. Is this legal? Who can be held responsible?
Just to be clear, we did get the information in writing. Not only is the information in published form, but the sales reps also gave a lot of it to us in writing.

I am planning of filing for bankruptcy ch. 7 in California. Ive been calling various lawyers around the area, and most are expensive. So I called this one place that is far from where i live but they are the cheapest and I asked the lawyer questions about my situation and if I could leave two cards out and he said yes and I told him well I owe 0 on one of them and he said oh yes you can leave that one out. But other lawyers ive consulted with have said no i have to put in the bankruptcy. Is this true? and the fishy part about this guy he said also "I can go to your house for your convience or meet you at a Starbucks I meet most of my clients there." What do you guys think of this situation? Thanks Everyone for answering.

1. every time they disobey you, explain tax fraud in detail
2. Make them dig a ditch. Don’t tell them its their grave but hint at it
3. instead of a fun birthday present, give them something depressing like a photograph of injured soldiers from the civil war

Excerpts:

Obama administration officials now working on fixing and regulating the financial system were beneficiaries of several million dollars in pay from Wall Street and private equity companies, it has been revealed.

Gene Sperling, a senior Treasury adviser, was paid 7,727 by Goldman Sachs and 8,000 for speeches to companies that included Stanford Group, the company run by Sir Allen Stanford, who has since been charged with fraud.

Mr Sperling’s compensation from Goldman was for work on a philanthropic project. His overall pay, including for his main job at the Council on Foreign Relations, totalled .2m in the 13 months to January.

The forms, which were first obtained by Bloomberg, showed that Matthew Kabaker, another adviser in the Treasury, earned .8m at Blackstone, the private equity firm, in the two years before joining the administration to work on plans to support banks and spur lending. Much of the compensation was in stock.

Lewis Alexander, another adviser, was chief economist to Citigroup before joining the administration; he was paid .4m in the last two years.

Previous releases of disclosure forms revealed the .2m paid to Lawrence Summers, chief economic adviser to the White House, by DE Shaw, the hedge fund, in the two years before he joined the administration.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f012c4b2-b8f6-11de-98ee-00144feab49a.html

Is the the "change" we were promised?

Or is it a case of… It takes a thief to know another?
Since I’m not a Bushbot, those of you who are pointing out Bush are truly wasting your time. YOU’VE voted for change. Where is it?

Possible social security fraud. My father died about 5 yrs ago and I wasn’t able to go to funeral in Dominican Republic. Here it is 5yrs later and my half-brother calls to get a spanish version of my american birth certificate in order to sell my father’s house (there is 3 of us in total). First of all I haven’t heard from him since my father died now he half-brother pops up a month ago asking for this and got a message TODAY that he is here from PR to NY with his mother from DR to get this paper from me unannouced. Sounds fishy to me. I asked him when he called last month, where is our father buried, he said I don’t know, I got there 2 days after he died and he was already buried. I asked him if they his stopped social security payments, he said I don’t know. And maybe the cousin that is on the property has that info and goes on to say — she probably poisened him. (What’s up with that?)

YEAH RIGHT!!! NEED ALL THE ADVICE I CAN GET!!! HELP!!!

I had a customer of mine recently that kept sending the same email over & over & over. So I finally clicked on it! I gotthe phishing virus! Is there ANYWAY I can prevent that from happening to all of my contacts? I am a small business owner & rely on my emailing to do business. What can I do? Please help!

What can one do if they are the victims of online identity fraud and libel?

I want to take legal action against someone I believe created a fictitious MySpace page using my name, my picture and my personal information. They even added friends and family members and e-mailed them pretending to be me; writing e-mails that insinuate terrible things. A family member that responded to the e-mails shared very private personal information. This phony MySpace page has been an active page for months – I’ve only found out about it now.

I’m not a law guru and internet law is so new that I’m unsure of what’s what. I know that my identity was stolen to get personal information and also as a means to defame my character. I have the e-mails which say malicious and untrue things.

I have a good idea who did this. However, how do I proceed if I want to take legal action? How do I track the IP address of the person who created the site? This is very distressing for me. Thanks for your suggestions!

Around october last year when i was 17. I hung out with people i shouldnt have and i made a stupid decision for them and tried to steal alcohol, and was caught before i walked out of the store. the officer came and wrote me a ticket for stealing. i went to court plead guilty, paid a fine and went on..I didnt know what else to do.

Now i am 18 and Just recently i was in a different store and was looking at BUYING some golf balls and grabbed 2 sleeves of balls i was going to buy and 1 sleeve i was going to ask my friend about.. i walked around a bit and was going to swing a club to just test it. and out of habit put the sleeves of balls in my jacket pocket with the zippers OPEN..and when i was done i had just forgot about them. I then walked to the front area of the store looking for my friend and didnt see him so went back to look for him. and the store manager came up to me and asked me to come to the front and i had then realized id forgotten about the balls and tried to explain to him i was going to buy them. I know it looks super guilty but i wasnt stealing them. so the officer came and wrote me a ticket for stealing. i have another court date..and this time im planning on talking to an attorney. what will happen? If the lawyer can get this one cleared will i be ok? If not what will my consequences be? And also does a small misdemenour charge on your record look really bad to an employer in the future even since it was so long ago?
I stole once..and have completely changed this was a totally unlucky thing.

I receive pregnancy medicaid and I know once the baby is born I am obligated to cooperate with the state in order to establish child support payments.
If I say I don’t know who the father is I lose my benefits and I DO know who the father is, as does my Dr…also its on my medical paperwork and he will be present at the birth so his name will appear on the birth certificate (which Medicaid wants a copy of) so there is no way to lie to them and if I’m caught I/l be charged with Medicaid fraud and won’t ever be eligable for benefits again.
But here’s the thing…The baby’s father and I are still together. He is unemployed and cannot find work I know they will still establish child support payment but he won’t be able to pay it so that puts us in a pickle. He will have back child support payments and that will make it impossible to him to find work in Law Enforcement (he just got out of Police Training in July).
So I can’t lie to Medicaid and My bf can’t pay child support. Is there anything I can do?

If it would be easier you can email me at barnab1990@gmail.com
Also don’t say he should just get a job because he has been trying. Originally he was fine with paying child support because he thought he would’ve gotten hired SOMEWHERE by now but he has tried everywhere, not just law enforcement positions, and gotten no where.
So if you’re going to say that just don’t bother to answer. I need REAL help…
I live in Florida.
And NO WAY. Im not getting married. Not at 19 and not just because I’m having a baby with him. lol. We are NOT ready for that yet.

Also, do you think if the state is the one trying to establish the Child Support that they will allow me to set up informal payments?

I’m having a hard time dealing with my bank disputing a charge made to my credit card, (which is quite different than my dealings with them in the old days). I’m wondering if I switch banks/cards if I’d have better luck in the future if I have to dispute something. Or are the rules & standards all the same no matter what bank card I get? Is it the bank that resolves disputes, or is it Visa?

Basically, my friend’s father is a really hardworking man who has been facing a lot of financial situations during his lifetime, as my friend told me. His father is a dump truck driver in Ontario and he had two trucks. One didn’t function well so he sold that. Unfortunately, his second truck got stolen, he’s thinking it’s the same guy who he bought it from. He’s in a major struggle at the moment and has insurance on it. He paid off the truck he bought from the guy around k but he also has no evidence of it, no invoice or anything because he thought he could trust him and then this
happens. Insurance is giving k for the stolen truck but for the better person, either my friend’s father or the person he bought the truck from. The guy had cheated him and he’s mostly likely receiving the money, due to the fact that my friend’s father has no evidence of paying him off, he has a very less chance of winning it. He also spoke to the guy he bought it from, and he said he doesn’t care and that he will see him in court. My friend’s father is a such hardworking person and always struggled in his life and I am feeling very sorry for him and my friend. Is there any way that he can prove to the judge to win the money to help pay off his debts? His truck was stolen but they don’t know who to believe, the guy or my friend’s father, the case seems complicated and there deciding on the court date on who will win. He only has evidence of him paying k to the guy but not the other k. Is there anyway he could win? My friend’s father is broke because of that guy because he depended on that truck for his work and now this. If only God can see this. Please help my friend! Anyone that’s a lawyer that can give advice on what to do on the situation, please, the money is going in the wrong hands.

Mexican soap opera star Fernanda Romero is back in the headlines. The sultry beauty, who faces accusation of fraudulently marrying a California man to get legal residency in the United States, is expected to stand trial on immigration-fraud charges this week.The actress’ American husband Kent Ross will join her in the trial, beginning Aug. 24, 2010, according to multiple online published reports.

Actress’ sham marriage
Romero, a well-known Mexican soap opera star, and Kent Ross, a US musician whom she married in 2005, were arrested in April on marriage fraud charges.

Maria Fernanda Romero Martinez of Westwood, better known by her stage name Fernanda Romero, and Ross, of California, both 28, wed on June 12, 2005, but they never lived together and even continued to date other people, as claimed by Swiss fashion photographer Markus Klinko.

Ex-beau exposes Romero
Klinko, who used to be Romero’s onetime boyfriend, exposed the actress’ so called green-card scam marriage to federal immigration authorities after she dumped Klinko in 2007, reports the New York Post.

Klinko claims he dated Romero in 2007 while she was still married to Ross.

Klinko, who used to be Romero’s onetime boyfriend, exposed the actress’ so called green-card scam marriage to federal immigration authorities after she dumped Klinko in 2007, reports the New York Post.

Trial set on immigration-fraud charges
Klinko, star of the Bravo reality show "Double Exposure," is now expected to be the main witness at the pair’s criminal trial, starting Tuesday in Los Angeles.

The celebrity photographer has reportedly hired an investigator to gather evidence of Romero’s alleged sham marriage.

"Klinko went to great lengths to see to it that this case was criminally prosecuted and … did so because of his animus toward defendant Fernanda Romero," a defense petition said, according to CNN.

Pair pleads not guilty
The ‘Drag Me to Hell’ star, Romero was charged in a Los Angeles court on Monday for allegedly marrying Ross to marry her so that she could become a U.S. resident.

Both Romero and Ross have pleaded not guilty to charges of marriage fraud and making false statements, according to the Associated Press.

War of words
The prosecution will argue that the pair have never lived together and have continued to hang out with other people since their 2005 nuptials.

However, Romero and Ross’ lawyers maintain in their filings that the pair nuptials weren’t a scam, saying the pair had been in love but the marriage just didn’t work out, reports the Post.

The defense team will claim the Swiss snapper fabricated his story after Romero dumped him.

"This is a case of two young people in love but naive to the complexities of marriage. It is a case of an older man, Markus Klinko, who was obsessed with a young woman half his age, who, when spurned as her lover, was driven by spite and revenge to destroy her life, her career and her reputation," their filings say.

Accused of marrying for immigration purposes, Romero and Ross both face five years in prison if convicted.

http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100825/trial-mexican-actress-accused-marrying-fraudulently-become-us-citizen-begin-id-101

What can/should you do if you are a victim of Identity Theft (include how to report a fraud)?

Can you please help me answer that!

Thank you so much!

My childrens’ mother is committing fraud and it is 100 percent intentional My children are in the house can I get custodial guardianship when I report it?

As much as it pains me to say this, I have to admit it – my Democrat friends were right.

They told me if I voted for McCain, the nation’s hope would deteriorate, and sure enough there has been a 20 point drop in the Consumer Confidence Index since the election, reaching a lower point than any time during the Bush administration.

They told me if I voted for McCain, the US would become more deeply embroiled in the Middle East, and now, tens of thousands of additional troops are scheduled to be deployed into Afghanistan.

My Democrat Party friends told me if I voted for McCain, that the economy would get worse and sure enough unemployment is at 9.5% and the new stimulus packages implemented recently have sent the stock market lower than at any time since the Islamic Terrorists attacks of 9-11.

They told me if I voted for McCain, we would see more "crooks" in high ranking positions in Federal government and sure enough, several recent cabinet nominees and Senate appointments revealed resumes of scandal, bribery and tax fraud.

They told me if I voted for McCain, we would see more "Pork at the trough" in Federal government and sure enough, 17,500 "Pork Bills" showed up in Congress since January 2009.

I was also told by my Democrat friends that if I voted for McCain, we would see more deficit spending in Washington D.C., and sure enough, Obama has spent more in just 30 days than all other Presidents together – in the entire history of the good ole USA!!

Well I voted for McCain in November and my Democratfriends were right… All of their predictions have come true!

My disablity benefits worker found out I am working on my master’s degree. I get about ,000 per year for COLLEGE. I get a small portion back in excess funds.
Now they are investigating the issue and I was told that the ,000 a year is over the qualfied amount for all benefits.
I am so scared because I may only get back ,000 each disbursement which is for 6 months. What can I do?
What can I expect? In my bachelor’s program they did not count my losans as income. I want to work in the feild of pychology. I can not get a job in psychology without a master’s. It is too late now I have ,000 of college debt.
How is this considered welfare fraud? They said I might owe the government money? What exactly will I lose. Will I lose my medical insurance?
I want to use to excess funds for college expenses not living expenses
I take online courses which is the only way I can ever attend college. I dropped out 3 times when I tried at a ground campus.
Every noise is amplfied times 10 for me. When thunder hits it might as well be a bomb. I can’t concentrate yet medication makes me too sick too function.
I also have severe allergies to a lot of medications.
By the way if I owe them money than how do I pay it back? I would need all my loan money to now live one.
I am not suppsed to live on my student loans.
This is very dangerous for me. It can put me in a harmful mode.
I have a disablity and can’t work part time. I have ADD, Bi-polar and depersonalzation disorder. I get very confused when there is a lot of activity. I pass out when overstressed, get high blood pressure, have severe memory loss, heart palpations, headaches, flu like symptoms, almost complete dissasocaitions, minor visual disturbances, and tingling hands/feet.
Stress is the tirgger. When my stress level is low I am fine but when it is very high I get all these symptoms. Medication never helps and it is getting better with age.
They knew I was going to college for 4 years. It all became a problem in my master’s program.
I have to go to therapy and DRs for my condition.
Most medications do not help.
I only get 00-00 in excess funds to use every 6 months. I can not live on that.
I have a part time job which is only 0/month.
I can’t function at a decent level if I work over 30 hours a week unless it is from home.
I want to teach online courses.
I am on ssdi and ssi. I am in the united states. I am very scared right now because it seems no matter what I do I may be in trouble.
If I report the college loans they will take away most of my benefits.
IF I don’t report I have committed welfare fraud.
I like to use the excess funds for college related expenses. I take online courses and always like have some money set aside in case my computer breaks down.

Well, actually, not only will it end, but should it end? Who would want to believe in something that is not only a fraud, but is also a very bad thing? I read a reply that was posted to a question about the Piso family creating Christianity which said that IF it is proven that they did create Christianity that it would be the end of it. That makes sense to me.