“We assert that we believed we were dealing in legitimate real estate transactions.”
LOL!!
I’m thinking that if the fraudulent transactions had made you money, you wouldn’t think that anybody did anything wrong and you’d happily be spending that money. It’s only because you are left holding the short stick that you want some kind of recourse.
There’s an age old saying that perhaps you’ve heard: “If something seems too good to be true, it probably is”. You are in your predicament solely because of the bad judgment you exercised while you were in a greed induced fog.
If you’re looking for sympathy, it’s in the dictionary between sh** and syphilis….
