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Part I: A Staggering Swindle

: Rented Identities, Extravagant Prices and Foreclosure: A Post-Boom Real Estate Scam; » By KELLY BENNETT and WILL CARLESS; »: January 21, 2010 - 2:29 pm; Jim McConville used rented identities to buy 81 condos in Escondido and San Marcos last year, pulling $12.5 million from the deals. Now, the condos face foreclosure, at least one lender says he's ruined and U.S. taxpayers could be on the hook.

Part II: A Staggering Swindle

: How It Could Happen in 2008; » By KELLY BENNETT and WILL CARLESS; »: January 21, 2010 - 2:31 pm; Despite the efforts to clamp down on the easy-money excesses of the housing boom, the story of 81 bogus condo sales in North County shows the real estate financing system -- all the way up to giant government-run mortgage companies -- remained vulnerable to greed and deception in the last year.

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»: January 21, 2010 - 2:32 pm

After the Story

McConville's 'Lavish Lifestyle'

San Francisco's ABC 7 has another piece in its continuing coverage of Jim McConville, the guy who's received a ton of media attention, including from us, for his complicated real estate deals-gone-sour all over the state. In the piece, reporter Dan Noyes tours the foreclosed, gutted 80-acre ranch in Castro Valley that used to belong to McConville.

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Part I: A Staggering Swindle

Part II: A Staggering Swindle

A Staggering Swindle on NBC 7/39

The Images and Illustrations of A Staggering Swindle

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