Florida AG Targets Alleged Pennsylvania Rent To Own Scam Artist

In Broward County, Florida, WFOR-TV Channel 4 reports:

• Jim Platts, 56, is being investigated by the Florida Attorney General after Pennsylvania authorities as early as 2002 arrested the homebuilder for forgery and theft. Now, federal authorities are worried about Platt's business dealings in South Florida. In November of last year, the attorney general in the same state of his arrest accused Platts of tax evasion, and filed a civil lawsuit against his company, Easy Realty Solutions. The charges are that Platts ripped off more than a hundred people in a rent-to-own mortgage scheme. [...] After the Pennsylvania incident, CBS4 learned that state documents show Platts opened up a firm in South Florida called A Realty Prescription in Coral Springs. The office: a post office box.

For more, see Homebuilder Under Investigation In South Florida.

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