ByMalcolm Pryor was charged after ABC13 reported on his alleged ties to a complicated scam that forced a retired teacher out of her Houston home.A self-proclaimed real estate investor faces criminal charges due to a questionable real estate transaction that forced a retired Houston school teacher out of her long-time home.
Next, Eyewitness News uncovered a complicated web of real estate transactions that began when Jackson said she met Pryor through a church friend. Jackson said Pryor promised to fix up her house at 5119 Stuyvesant. A few months later, records show Pryor filed a mechanic's lien against Jackson's home, and soon after that, Jackson signed a warranty deed, effectively handing her home over to Pryor.
The Houston Police Department opened an investigation, and on March 13, Pryor was criminally charged. In court documents, investigators accuse Pryor of faking bank statements that showed he had more than $75,000 in the bank when he only had $255. They allege Pryor faked retirement records by putting his name on his wife's Kinder Morgan retirement account.
"The evidence would clearly suggest that documents were irregular when obtaining a loan for this property," Baldwin said. "Of course, people are innocent until proven guilty, but what you hope is something is done that keeps this from happening again to other people, and something happens to help Ms. Jackson and the lender be made whole."
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