Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
SCAMMER STEALS $4M NYC HOME (The Real Story)
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
Carmella Charrington shares her story on how her NYC home is being stolen. Carmella's Linkshttps://www.instagram.com/mellamella1/?hl=enhttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100033357391916&ref=ig_profile_achttps://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40carmellacharringt4%3F_t%3D8kc1Vw19gJX%26_r%3D1%26fbclid%3DPAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZI4bJiLnWSuUOZH6TDksxkBX7R6aCN36SD-iLaeMC7kfIysXHSo7ktYqA_aem_oi92gftgf3IDrBhsKI4YJg&e=AT19k37KaftOPPn4LslvnpYDsoyZ6jdy2PFw8DX0S9g_Hd1NhC2AtXb9Ue-w32aShuI40gxfjDpmuXvUemU1mvDTzEEUL9-LuRpzULIhttps://linktr.ee/toevils?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaahZPTQqAl_c6K85O41-D3udqW55NXqSx2aGsOwkzdf-R7u0EoGNrIaJJk_aem_ENf9XHIEkYnvpogv-2hnAwDo you want to be a guest? Fill out the form https://forms.gle/5H7FnhvMHKtUnq7k7Send me an email here: [email protected]*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code COX15 at theperfectjean.nyc/COX15 #theperfectjeanpod https://theperfectjean.nycGet 50% sitewide for a limited time. Just visit https://GhostBed.com/cox and use code COX at checkout. Go to https://www.Qualialife.com/true for up to 50% off and use code true at checkout for an additional 15% off. For your convenience Qualia Senolytic is also available at select GNC locations near you.Do you extra clips and behind the scenes content?Subscribe to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/InsideTrueCrime 📧Sign up to my newsletter to learn about Real Estate, Credit, and Growing a Youtube Channel: https://mattcoxcourses.com/news 🏦Raising & Building Credit Course: https://mattcoxcourses.com/credit 📸Growing a YouTube Channel Course: https://mattcoxcourses.com/yt🏠Make money with Real Estate Course: https://mattcoxcourses.com/reFollow me on all socials!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@matthewcoxtruecrimeDo you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopartListen to my True Crime Podcasts anywhere: https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my true crime books! Shark in the Housing Pool: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851KBYCFBent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TMIt's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5GDevil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3KBailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade?: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNFHBDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1678623676&sr=1-1Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel!Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WXIf you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69Cashapp: $coxcon69
Chapter 1: What happened when the scammers broke into Carmella's home?
These people broke into my house and claiming that they're the new owners. They gave me out the property. The DA, the Attorney General, everyone is aware of what's going on with the property. Are they doing anything about it? Absolutely not. They are taking our properties rapidly.
Chapter 2: What strange behavior did Carmella notice in her father?
I took my father on a trip, and I noticed that there was some things going on with my dad that was just a little strange. It wasn't his normal behaviors, kept repeating things. And we went to a restaurant. He asked to use his phone because he wanted to call his wife. And we was like, your wife? What do you mean? Who did you marry? What do you mean you got married?
And he was like, yeah, I'm married. And I said, to who? When did you get married? Like, we had no idea. So we said, oh, her name is Karen. We was like, Karen? So we were like, OK. all right, something is terribly going on because we didn't know who this woman was. We didn't have no idea. We heard about him in Atlanta, you know, having like family gatherings.
Chapter 3: How did Carmella's family respond to her father's new marriage?
We knew that it was some woman, but we didn't know to the fact that he had married her. So I noticed that he had like some lesions on his skin. And I was like, all right, I'll set up an appointment for him to go to the dermatologist. I'll fly down because like I said, I work for the airline. So I'm able to fly back and forth. I'll go and I'll fly down and take him to the doctor and see about them.
And at that point, From day one, when I decided to kind of assist and help with his medical and, you know, fly it to Atlanta, I found out at that point that this lady that he allegedly married had such a problem with it. So we took him, you know, we, you know, had rented a car. We went to the dermatologist and then I saw, you know, she ended up going because she insisted.
It was like fine, you know. And she basically was filling out all the documents for my dad at the doctors. And I filmed it. Like I sat on the side and filmed it. And I went back to my siblings, like, I think there's something wrong. And then it just was a series of events.
You think she's taking advantage of him? It was absolutely.
I saw it from day one. And so when I saw it from day one, I mentioned it to my siblings, like, listen, I think there's something going on here. I think that we need to be concerned about it. And then, you know, we just basically was going from a medical perspective, like just taking him on series of, you know, try to get doctors visits to see he had some previous health conditions.
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Chapter 4: What alarming signs did Carmella's family observe regarding her father's finances?
Was he, you know, following up on his doctor's appointment, stuff like that. And everything was a pushback. So it became more alarming and more alarming because everything with this woman was a pushback, everything. So then we put like trackers on, we did everything. We put trackers on the car, we would film, we would record any time we was in the presence.
So then we start informing all the agencies like, hey, there's something going on. We became power of attorneys, we saw the accounts, we saw money just being transferred from left to right. And then all these series of events, it ended up, we ended up going to look for a conservative in a guardianship situation because no one was listening to us about what was going on.
What is she saying?
Um, she just is like, no, that's not what happened. That's not what's happening, honey. You know, she was causing a lot of, you know, telling him that's not what's going on. And we're like, we're seeing the account and we're seeing the money being transferred. And the last event that occurred is I took him to the decontinence doctor to get tested.
And in the doctor's office, because I had the access to the account, I looked at it on the phone, $17,000. And, you know, the doctors are mandated reporters. And if you look at the paperwork, it says it on the paperwork that the daughter's state and that $17,000 is removed out of his account. And that's what led us to the point where we're like, okay, we need to do something, you know, about it.
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Chapter 5: What legal actions did Carmella's family take to protect their father?
And that's when we went and applied for a guardianship and a conservatorship because we saw that these, we saw it the whole time, but nobody was doing anything about it. Everyone we went to, they, it was like on deaf ears. And so then COVID kind of came, you know, we were, you know, um,
in the process of trying to go to court, petition the court, you know, speak with, you know, go in front of the attorney. I mean, go in front of the judge to, you know, try to get, you know, guardianship over our dad. And during court, I mean, they do a lien report. They do a whole compound evidence. It said that my sister and I would be a perfect fit for it.
When we went to court, everything changed. So we're like, wait a minute. Because it lets you know pretty much what your outcome could possibly be. The judge changed instantly, like, no, we'll be a neutral party. We were like, what do you mean? My father has five kids. Why would you be a neutral party over us to make sure my father was taken care of?
And they were like, oh, we're going to protect his money. OK, what about his health? They didn't even do that for his health. They went right to DHS. Well, now, looking back, it was against the law. You're supposed to do the order of preference. They never do the order of preference and explain why, if I didn't pick this child, why I didn't pick this child.
But we didn't know until now that that was done illegally. So then here we are again, a series of events with my dad into this guardianship and conservatorship.
Where is this? In Atlanta, Georgia?
Atlanta, Georgia was the conservator and guardianship.
I was going to say, I've, you know, obviously I know a bunch of, I know a bunch of obviously criminals, but I would be locked up. And when someone would run, let's say a Ponzi scheme or even just whatever, just straight fraud, these guys are just stealing and they're running, they're doing something.
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Chapter 6: How did the courts respond to Carmella's family's concerns?
They bring in a- Could be a conservatorship?
Well, somebody comes in and they have a different name for it. The guy comes in and sells off everything.
Oh, yes. That's what they do. They're attorneys. That's what they are.
It's an attorney. It's an attorney. It sells off everything. But like the judge will appoint someone. That's exactly right. Kind of like he knows.
Exactly.
Exactly. I know Todd. He's a good guy. Yep. And Todd ends up selling all your stuff and you're like, okay, well, that vehicle's worth $20,000. Even if Todd's not great at it, he's just trying to get rid of the stuff as quick as possible. Maybe it sells for 15. It doesn't sell for three.
Right.
To your buddy who then resells it for 15 and then cuts you check back. There was, I had a buddy, I had a buddy who they liquidated – is it conservatory? I forget what they called the guy. But anyway, the amount of fraud – this guy stole – in the process of it, he stole $2.5 million. Mm-hmm. of all the money that was... So he's selling this stuff and then he's charging these outrageous fees.
And the person that has to sign off on the fees is the judge who's his buddy who... That's exactly what they're doing. And so this guy... Anyway, so he did it with this guy, with my buddy who's in prison. So now you're ripping off the victims that my buddy just ripped off. Right. Now he's ripping them off again. Yep. in collusion with the judge.
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Chapter 7: What tactics are scammers using to steal properties?
Gas or something like that. So that's another thing. So they are aware that... You know, if this conservative knows these plays, they know what to do and what not to do. You know, they know what to do. Hey, just burn the house down. They're not going to do any extra investigation. I'm the conservative. They're going to listen to what I'm saying and we can get.
This is another way we can get the money. And that's exactly what they did as well.
So what happened with the property?
The property is boarded up right now. The property is boarded up, but they're acting as if we're in control over it. We make the decisions on the property when they haven't been doing anything for my father. My father's been in New York for over 15 months. They haven't gave him a dime, nothing. where I had to report it to Social Security in pension. Like, look, this is what's going on.
They're not making sure he has any of the things that he needs.
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Well, I looked at a couple attorneys, but, like, I got in a situation with an attorney. So I'm really kind of, you know, really combing through anyone that could really help us and help us legitimately because I had an attorney and she didn't do anything to help us in this situation. Even order of preference, that was against the law. And they were able to do it, you know.
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Chapter 8: How can victims of deed theft seek help?
Yes, I end up forming a coalition. Yes, I'm still constantly working on it because there's so many people like me that have the same stories. We've compound information where it's the same judges. It's the same lawyers. It's the same people that's doing the same thing. So now we realize it's a problem. The referee's deeds, they're saying that they're certified, and it's not.
We see in the same exact pattern, but it's continuously happening.
Well, I think also a lot of these judges see the same lawyers over and over again. So if you've been seeing this lawyer for 10 years and you've never really had any problems with him, So if he comes in front of you one day, it's just like the normal, he knows what he's doing. He's doing this. This is what he does. It's not a problem. He's always been legit.
And the lawyer may or may not even, I'm just saying not, I don't know about your case, this case in general, but I know that there was an article that I had read about a lawyer. It wasn't even a lawyer. It was a guy in New York who was finding elderly people that had homes that had a ton of equity in them.
And maybe they were occupied or they were leasing, their houses were vacant or being rented, or maybe they were even occupied. Because in the article, they talked about a woman who lost her house. These are people in their 80s.
Right.
And he would go, and most of these houses had been paid off. They don't have a mortgage.
Right, like us. We had no mortgage, no nothing, paid off.
What this guy would do is go and he would place a mortgage on the property.
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