Deed Forgery Should Not Go Unpunished
California is a state that will throw you in the clink for a lifetime if you steal a loaf of bread, but if you become incorporated you can steal a house or two or three without danger of incarceration [“Hitting Home,” July 26]. Call it three strikes and you’re rich!
Characteristically, legislators and enforcement people have no stomach to go after white-collar hanky-panky. They protest that for one reason or another they are powerless to obtain a conviction, and once again it’s get out of jail free for the well-connected.
Regarding the case of loan fraud in these parts, it smells like some payola has been spread around to keep the house theft scam well out of harm’s way.
ROLAND K. ECKER
La Canada Flintridge
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