Eleven Victimized Families In Northern California Foreclosure Rescue Scam To Get Deeds Back

In Stanislaus County, California, The Modesto Bee reports:

• Eleven families will get their home deeds back, according to a restitution deal signed Thursday by convicted swindlers who prayed with some victims before duping them. Lonni Ashlock, 57, of Waterford also agreed to pay a total of $120,000 to 10 others, most of whom were evicted from their homes before they were sold to third parties. Ashlock and his partner, Ronald Buhler, 27, of Riverbank pleaded no contest in September to six fraud and grand theft felonies. [...] Their victims included an 86-year-old woman with dementia, a schizophrenic, a woman with brain lesions and several other disabled people, according to court documents and testimony..

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• The Bee in July 2005 chronicled several lawsuits against Ashlock, Buhler and their many corporations and eventually tracked 142 properties the men had acquired.

For more, see Waterford swindler must pay victims $120,000.

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