Cincinnati Woman Sues Lawyer For Leaving Her Holding The Bag On Real Estate Investment; Prosecutors Investigate

In Ohio, the Dayton Daily News reports:

• The Warren County prosecutor's and the Ohio attorney general's offices are investigating claims by a woman who says a lawyer duped her into buying houses worth almost $5 million that she has never lived in and cannot afford. Authorities are reviewing Francisca Webster's purchase of two houses built for Homearama shows in the Long Cove subdivision in Deerfield Twp. and another in the River's Bend subdivision in South Lebanon. Webster, a Cincinnati resident, is suing lawyer Eric Duke in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court because he misled her about the house purchases, her attorney Ron Parry said.

• "When she took her tax papers to Duke in 2006, she told him she had gotten some bad news, that her job was going to be phased out," Parry said. "He told her he knew of a way she could make some money, that he had a real estate hedge fund and if she would help him out, and buy some properties, that there would be some money in it for her to pay her bills."

For more, see Lawyer tricked me into buying 3 houses worth $5 million, woman says.