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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the Post: "Blaeuer said many of the families earlier lived in Maryland and fell behind on their mortgages after the Great Recession. They moved in with parents who have homes in the District, although they never signed formal leases. [b]Some rented their Maryland homes to friends and family, formally or informally[/b]."

And if you believe this, I've got a bridge in PG County to sell you.  This is a clear, after-the-fact attempt to obfuscate fraud.[/quote]

I also don't believe that kid, the dance/senior. wasn't living with his mom and her fiance in MD. So what if she had a DC license?[/quote]

The explanation sounds more than a bit far-fetched to me:  The parents/caregivers fell behind on their mortgages on the Maryland house, but some friends and family agreed to pay rent in MD while living there, and other family let the caregivers live in DC for free, while collecting rent on the MD property in order to catch up on the MD mortgage?  So that way, there's no paper trail to prove the student was living in DC, and no paper trail to prove that friends/family were paying rent in MD?

If that's the explanation, then, just...wow.[/quote]

Presumably everyone involved was willing to make sworn statements to the above -- with penalties if caught lying. [/quote]

You could presume that, but none of the news coverage says the AG verified the existence of, let alone spoke to, let alone got statements under penalty of perjury from, these mystical informal tenants of Maryland.

And let's assume this really did happen--is the AG going to check whether these newly-verified DC resident Ellington families reported and paid taxes on the rent they got from their MD properties? Because somehow I'm guessing not all of them claimed that income...and that should lead to its own penalties.[/quote]

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