Posted on 10/05/2022 4:52:17 PM PDT by simpson96
Grandkids are supposed to steal your heart — not your house.
A Brooklyn woman allegedly hijacked her grandmother’s longtime home by forging the elder’s signature on a fake deed and filing it with the city — then took out a $399,000 mortgage on the property, according to a $5 million lawsuit.
Leonita Arbuckle, 77, bought her two-story, multi-family Flatbush house with her husband Selwyn in 1972 for $31,650, dutifully paying off the mortgage in 1995.
But the retired nurse got a letter in May claiming the property had been transferred to her granddaughter, Jaishree Arbuckle-Pierre, for $1, the grandmother charges in her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
“You don’t expect that from your kids,” she told The Post.
Arbuckle says she never gave her home to the younger woman, who was raised and lived in the home until she graduated from high school in 2004, according to court papers.
The apparently ungrateful granddaughter has a history of fraud, legal records show.
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Despite it all, Arbuckle said she’s not willing to let the alleged transgressions destroy their relationship.
“How mad could I be? It’s done,” she said, noting that Arbuckle-Pierre’s teen son still lives with her in the home.
“He doesn’t know we’re threatened to go live out on the street,” she said.
She’s fighting to regain ownership of her home, but won’t give up on her granddaughter either.
“I’m not going to destroy my relationship … she’s going to be my granddaughter til the day she die,” Arbuckle said.
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Black on black crime. Good family values they were taught.
Someone who would do this to their grandmother (or mother) is pure scum.
What could possibly go wrong?
The little twit is a criminal who belongs in the jailhouse , not at grandma’s table eating toll house cookies.
Absolutely forgive her but don’t absolve her
Hey, don’t judge the granny.
Forge a signature, file a few papers, steal a house.
It shouldn’t be this easy.
My parents were hard-core when it came to morals.
Not only would they sue, they would press criminal charges as well.
My parents were amazing people. They would move heaven and earth to help the family. But don’t ever call them from jail; they would let you rot.
Is this an ad for home title alert?
“Someone who would do this to their grandmother (or mother) is pure scum.”
No kidding.
How so? Her grandparents didn’t steal the house from family as she did.
Thats what got society here in the first place... Never in a million years after death would I forgive something like this.
This kind of crime makes me think of one punishment.
Horsewhipping.
In public.
Reminds me of J Paul Getty
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/all-the-money-in-the-world-j-paul-getty
Once upon a time title document signatures needed to be notarized and id shown. I’ve always had to sign mortgage/title documents in front of a title/bank officer. NY must be different.
SPJNK.
Someone that low and dirty cannot be given any wiggleroom. The Grandmother is going to have to chose: her own home or her lying, cheating Granddaughter. She cant have both. The younger one is banking on making Grandma feel guilt and pity, then forgetting about the whole thing. Her great grandson is learning how to treat elders in the same way.
Man, baseball is getting more complicated every year.
My Dad always told me that if I were ever arrested for something I didn’t do, he would do whatever it would take to get me out of jail.
He also told me that if I were arrested for something I actually did, not to waste my phone call on him. I was never going to test that out; he was a man of his word.
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