Hathaway's real estate transactions questioned
Detroit — The FBI is investigating real estate transactions Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway made last year that allowed her to drop nearly $600,000 in mortgage debt on a $1.5 million Lake St. Clair home, sources familiar with the investigation told The Detroit News.
Sources said the probe was launched after news reports in May revealed Hathaway and her husband, trial attorney Michael Kingsley, transferred at least two of their homes to relatives before a bank allowed them to unload the home on Lakeview Court in Grosse Pointe Park in a November 2011 short sale.
The FBI tried to reach out to Hathaway's family through interviews, said a source close to the investigation.
Real estate experts and the Democratic Party-nominated justice's Republican political opponents have questioned whether Hathaway and Kingsley hid assets and committed mortgage fraud after the two homes were returned to the couple shortly after the short sale.
By Robert Snell and Chad Livengood
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