A Two Thousand Dollar Nebraska Land Purchase Leads to a Federal Fraud Case
Sarah Finch sat across from me, her dark hair pinned back with a wooden clip. She had three different files open on the laminate table, their manila tabs marked with pencil.
“Her attorney sent this over by courier at eleven fifteen,” Sarah said, sliding a thick blue folder across the table toward me. “It is a formal settlement proposal. It arrived before my cease-and-desist letter even reached their office.”
“She was at my place at ten,” I said. “She offered to drop the fifteen thousand dollars if I gave her an easement on the south side.”
“I am sure she did,” Sarah said. She reached up and cleaned her glasses with her shirt hem, her face pale and thoughtful in the fluorescent light. “They are moving very quickly, Arthur. Too quickly for a standard property dispute.”
“What does the paperwork say?” I asked.
“It matches what she told you on the surface,” Sarah said, putting her glasses back on. “Paragraph four outlines a structured payment plan where they agree to reduce your outstanding HOA balance to zero over twelve months, offset by a credit for the southern easement.”
