House of pain

Cary Spivak and Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailed how a motley collection of individuals and firms made money off one suspicious real estate deal in which a learning disabled man ended up buying a run-down inner city home. The newspaper hired a handwriting expert who determined that signatures may have been forged in the loan process and that a mysterious $38,000 payment was made to the loan broker, a felon under indictment at the time.