Matthew Cox

Once the fraudulent documents were recorded in the chain of title,

He would pose as the new owner, and his businesses were like Land Investment 01 and stuff like that.

And so he then immediately tries to sell the properties, working with co-conspirators sometimes to set up bank accounts for sham companies and whatnot.

They assume the identities of others in order to keep this scheme going, so there's some identity theft happening here.

Setting up dummy email accounts, obtaining fake driver's licenses,

They also forged the signatures and notary stamps of real notaries to make the fake documents look legitimate when they filed these things.

And they forged the signatures of real lawyers to prepare and file the fraudulent court documents.

And then their goal then is to sell these properties out from under people.

They're stealing people's homes and trying to sell them without the actual homeowners knowing.

FBI catches wind of this.

They send in an undercover agent to pose as a prospective buyer of one of these properties.

And Alzobi is pretending during the conversation with the undercover FBI agent to be an attorney for the true owners or the sellers is what he said.

But it's Alzobi there.

And so...

The reason the FBI does undercover assignments like that is to kind of just lock in who the bad guys are.

I would often go undercover as a prospective investor in Ponzi schemes because I want to record the sales pitch.

And so having Al Zobie there kind of trying to sell someone a home that he did not rightfully own, that he only owns on paper due to his home title theft, was fantastic evidence for the FBI.

It was fantastic.

Anyway, so he attempted to sell 15 homes with more than $3.6 million collective value that never belonged to him.

On 10 occasions, he was successful.