DOJ nabs bid-rigging brothers

Kathryn Haake

16 February 2018

Fraud: Real estate investors colluded to rig property bids (Credit: Casey Serin)

Two Mississippi real estate investors pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in the state.

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