Forged Documents Used To Swipe $140K+ In Home Sale Proceeds, Says Infamous Ex-Long Island Car Mechanic Says In Civil Lawsuit

In Chatsworth, California, Courthouse News Service reports:

• Joey Buttafuoco, the former car mechanic who became famous after his underage girlfriend shot his wife in 1992, has filed a suit against a real estate agent and a home buyer that claims they cheated him out of the proceeds of a house sale. Buttafuoco and wife Evanka, in a Superior Court complaint, alleged that agent Ronald Berlinsky and LLC Investments, Inc. forged documents in connection with a $1.5 million house sale that purported to pay Berlinsky $62,000 for a "personal debt" and credit buyer Stewart Sank $75,000 for "funds paid by the buyer directly to the seller, outside of escrow."

• Most of the money from the sale was to go pay off loans against the property. The Buttafuocos told Berlinsky they needed to sell the property quickly to avoid a foreclosure, the suit said. After the sale, the plaintiffs say they should have received at least $143,293 but they did not get any of the money.

Source: Buttafuoco Says Documents Forged in $1.5M House Sale. TheftOfDeedMeta