Metro Dream Homes Official Locked Up For Contempt Of Court

(original post - 10-13-07)
The ongoing saga of the Laurel, Maryland-based company Metropolitan Grapevine continues. The Free Lance-Star reports:

• The Maryland attorney general's office issued an emergency court order Monday to freeze temporarily the assets of a company that promised investors mortgage-free living. But no one was at Metropolitan Grapevine's locked Maryland offices three days later when an investigator and a receiver arrived to inspect financial records, said Raquel Guillory, the attorney general's spokeswoman. A representative from the Laurel, Md.-based company later explained that the employees didn't show up to let them in because they'd heard the assets had been frozen, she said.

A judge found that the company failed to comply with a court order allowing state officials to inspect company records and, therefore held a company official in contempt of court. The official, whose identity was not available yesterday, was handcuffed and sent to jail, according to the spokeswoman.

For more, see Dream Homes official is jailed (The Maryland Attorney General's office has frozen Metropolitan Grapevine's assets and put one of its officers in jail for contempt of court).

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