The caller was the Whitcombs’ attorney. He said federal investigators were at his office requesting that every document connected to the sale be preserved. My mortgage company had flagged the supposed power of attorney after comparing it with the travel restrictions and identity verification already attached to my account. The notary listed on Colby’s paperwork was also being examined in an unrelated interstate title-fraud investigation. Nobody had been arrested, and the buyers had done nothing wrong, but the transaction was now under formal review.
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