The Creig Northop Team PC and Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. already are embroiled in a legal battle in federal court regarding alleged RESPA violations. On Aug. 1, a new group of plaintiffs filed a similar lawsuit against the two companies.
Nancy Wade and Janice Rulli filed a purposed class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the companies, alleging that Long & Foster participated in a scheme in which the Creig Northrop Team and Creig and Carla Northrop received $1.3 million in illegal kickbacks from Lakeview Title Company Inc.
The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants used a sham employment arrangement and sham marketing agreement to accomplish the scheme.
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