ZOLFAGHARI v. SHEIKHOLESLAMI

No. 89-2460.

943 F.2d 451 (1991)

Hedayat ZOLFAGHARI, Fakr Riahi-Amini, Parviz Azmoun, Pari Azmoun, Massoud Djahanbani, Kaveh Farboud, Parvaneh Farboud, Parviz Khabir, Manijeh Khabir, Issa Malek, Amir F. Momtaz, Mohammad R. Momtaz, Shaheen Masseri, as Trustee for Nazari and Shirin Atabaki, Faradj Panahy, as Trustee for his daughter Yasmin Panahy, Lili C. Panahy, as Trustee for Nosrat Mahmoudi Chaicar, Nini Tavallali, as Trustee for Nosrat Mahmoudi Chaicar; Nini Tavallai, Jalal C. Tavallali, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Batool Tajbaksh, Feresteh Razaghitajbaksh, Manoucher Tajbaksh, Plaintiffs, v. Houshang I. SHEIKHOLESLAMI, Moore, Libowitz & Thomas, a Partnership of Richard W. Moore, Michael S. Libowitz and Steven A. Thomas, Howard S. Margulies, Jenkins & Block, a Partnership of Robert Jenkins and Bruce Block, Mark Greenberg, Charlotte Clott, Alisa L. Clott, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan Schneider, Robert Alan Burka, Knopf & Burka, Washington, D.C., argued (Morton A. Sacks, Cable, McDaniel, Bowie & Bond, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert Wilson Hawkins, Ginsburg, Feldman and Bress, Washington, D.C., argued (John C. Grabow, Ginsburg, Feldman and Bress, Washington, D.C., on brief for defendant-appellee Sheikholeslami; Samuel Blibaum, Daniel W. Quasney, Wartzman, Omansky, Blibaum & Simons, Baltimore, Md., on brief, for defendant-appellee Greenberg; Ronald W. Fuchs, Eccleston and Wolf, Baltimore, Md., on brief, for defendant-appellee Margulies; Paul W. Grimm, Terri Lee Reicher, Jordan, Coyne, Savits & Lopata, Baltimore, Md., on brief, for defendant-appellee Jenkins & Block; Kieron F. Quinn, J. Stephen Simms, Quinn, Ward and Kershaw, P.A., Baltimore, Md., on brief, for defendant-appellee Moore, Libowitz & Thomas; Robert B. Schulman, Schulman, Treem, Kaminkow & Gilden, Baltimore, Md., on brief, for defendant-appellee Clott) for defendants-appellees.

Before HALL, PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

The First American Mortgage Corporation (FAMCO) was a substantial enterprise that engaged in multiple frauds. It was ostensibly in the business of originating and servicing second mortgages, and of selling the mortgages and interests in mortgage pools to investors. Often its loans were improper. It misrepresented the nature and safety of its mortgages, and it sold the same mortgages...

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