Dad's Death Spurs Bitter Sibling Battle Involving Allegations Of Forged Mortgage, Title Transfers Of 80-Year Old Mom's Real Estate
- Perth property developer Joe Scaffidi, [...] has been accused in the Supreme Court of forging his mother’s signature to secure loans and the sale of a commercial property worth a total of $3 million. An affidavit, tendered into the court as part of a bitter family fight between Mr Scaffidi and his brother Gino, also alleges $110,000 from the disputed transactions was deposited into a company owned jointly by Joe and Lisa Scaffidi.
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- The fraud claims relate to four mortgage and land transfer documents signed between
December 2005 andApril 2006 . The paperwork contains signatures of Joe Scaffidi and what purports to be the signature of his 80-year-old mother Maria.
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- Being fought on several fronts in the courts, the Scaffidi family feud has been escalating since the death of the brothers’ father Antonio in 2004. [...] One of the disputed transactions, a $480,000 loan taken against a [...] rental house owned by [the mother], has placed the property in jeopardy because the loan defaulted. Another transaction before the court was the $700,000 sale of an East Perth office.
For more, see Scaffidi family feud sparks forgery claim. DeedContraTheft
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