Rumeal Robinson - scUM, pun intented.

[starBUCKS]

More than a game is on the line - The Boston Globe

A story how Rumeal Robinson fraudulently screwed his adoptive Mother out of her home. A lady that brought many foster children in, served the community schools and was even honored as a hometown hero by the Boston Celtics.

Ford and her attorney accuse Robinson of a brazen fraud committed in June 2003, when the lawyer alleges that Ford was duped into signing over the home to one of her son?s business associates. Dennis Benzan, the attorney, said that Robinson had asked Ford to put up the home as collateral for a loan he needed to build a luxury resort in his native Jamaica.

Instead, amid a flurry of documents pushed under her pen, Ford says she unwittingly signed a deed that sold the two-family home to Robinson?s associate for $600,000. Ford says she never saw a dime of the money, a later mortgage defaulted, and Ford was dumbfounded when she received an order in March to vacate the home.

?I haven?t paid rent in God knows how long before this, and I don?t know how long I can do it,?? Ford said. ?It?s not home, I don?t sleep, and I?ve never been alone before. I?ve always had my family around me.??

Since April, Ford has been living outside the city where she was born, raised, and opened her doors to children in need of a hot meal and a place to sleep. The home, with its open-door reputation, became known in the neighborhood as ?Ford?s Castle.?? In addition to five biological children, she and her husband adopted four more, including Rumeal.

In November 2006, the Boston Celtics honored Ford in a halftime ceremony as part of the team?s ?Heroes Among Us?? program. With Celtics captain Paul Pierce at her side, Ford was recognized for her decades of work to keep the Cambridge schools safe.

 

[NFBuck]

All class.

 

[BigWoof31]

[taos] Who amongst you hasn't kicked your mother and her foster children out of her house? [/taos]