She portrayed herself as a housing advocate, blessed for the opportunity to help those in need. Prosecutors say she preyed on elderly and vulnerable victims who lost their homes and sometimes generations of wealth
Lisa Roberts-Allen, a central figure in Asheville Watchdog’s investigative series, Equity Erased, is on trial this week in Buncombe Superior Court. She is accused of falsifying documents in real estate schemes that stripped Buncombe homeowners of their homes and equity.
Roberts-Allen had been facing 47 felony counts, but on Monday the state dismissed 37 charges — leaving the jury to decide the remaining six counts of forging a deed, two counts of obtaining property by false pretense and two counts of conspiracy to obtain property by false pretense…