MIAMI — Two men are facing charges in Miami federal court after agents said they stole the identities of the owners of a $10 million property in a ritzy South Florida neighborhood ― all in an underhanded attempt to use the land as collateral for a $6 million loan.
Investigators, however, said the would-be mortgage lender caught on before the two could pull off the scheme, which a legal analyst said could have cost the true owners of the Coral Gables property serious time and money.
Francisco Granati Poloni, 52, and Jackson Kelwin Ortuno, 42, are accused of impersonating a father and son who own the lot at 230 Arvida Parkway in the gated Gables Estates neighborhood, described by a local real estate website as “one of the most exclusive communities in the world.”…