It’s common for Chicago rental services to report their leasing agents as independent contractors for tax purposes, but control their day-to-day activities to the extent that they should have been classified as employees. The rental service recruiting ad, above, only hints at the high degree of control that rental services often exercise over how leasing ...
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Back in early August the Feds announced (PDF) the indictment of fourteen individuals charged with engaging in mortgage fraud in the Englewood neighborhood. The charges were part of Operation Madhouse, an undercover investigation conducted by the FBI, Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division. If you look at ...
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