{"id":6047,"date":"2026-10-17T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/st-louis-man-admits-1-5m-property-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:28:04","slug":"st-louis-man-admits-1-5m-property-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/st-louis-man-admits-1-5m-property-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Man Admits $1.5M Property Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Berkeley resident pleads guilty to conspiracy involving at least 14 properties in St. Louis and St. Louis County, including properties belonging to deceased owners. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 17, 2026 (STL.News) A St. Louis County man pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a property fraud conspiracy involving at least 14 properties across St. Louis and St. Louis County, exposing serious vulnerabilities in real estate ownership records and leaving some legitimate property owners struggling to reclaim their property. James L. Townes Jr., 51, of Berkeley, Missouri, admitted Thursday, October 15, that he participated in a conspiracy involving<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-man-admits-1-5m-property-fraud-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley resident pleads guilty to conspiracy involving at least 14 properties in St. Louis and St. Louis County, including properties belonging to deceased owners. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 17, 2026 (STL.News) A St. Louis County man pleaded guilty in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}