A Two Thousand Dollar Nebraska Land Purchase Leads to a Federal Fraud Case
The date on the filing was November twelfth, at four in the afternoon.
“That was the Friday before the Monday auction,” I said. “I had not even placed my bid yet.”
“Exactly,” Sarah said.
She pointed a clean fingernail at the routing information at the top of the digital receipt.
“And look at the origin address for the electronic submission.”
The screen displayed a long string of numbers ending in a local internet provider code.
Sarah opened a yellow legal pad and wrote the numbers down in neat, small print.
“The county network recorded the physical location of the computer that sent this,” Sarah said. “It belongs to the residential router registered to Brinley Fairmont.”
“She tried to alter the deed before it went to public sale,” I said.
Sarah nodded once, her pen scratching against the paper.
“She wanted to lock the homeowners association restrictions onto this parcel before any buyer could inspect the county plat books.”
“Why did the machine stop?” I asked.
“We need to ask Dolores Vance,” Sarah said.
She switched off the microfiche reader, and the green light vanished, leaving us in the gray shadows of the basement.
