The Unbelievable Story Of The Queens Man Who Fought Foreclosure And Wound Up Dead


Robert Johnson | Jun. 28, 2011, 9:54 AM | 8,090 | 54


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The death of Queens judicial activist Sunny Sheu is the subject of a chilling investigation in the New York investigative newspaper Black Star News.

Here's a quick recap.

On a calm spring afternoon eleven years ago, Sunny Sheu's lunch was interrupted by a knock on his front door. It was Tower Insurance agent, there to inspect the home for its new owners.

Surprised, Sheu explained his home hadn't been for sale, but Tower's paperwork was official. "I almost choked on my soup," he told Black Star News in 2009 (via Zero Hedge).

The Queens resident had been victim of a complex scam that started with a forged power of attorney and led to a mortgage with Centex Home Equity. The story ended with his death from blunt force trauma to the head almost one year ago today.

Sheu refinanced his house in his brother's name in 2000. Sheu's mortgage broker, Roman Chiu then forged Shue's brother's signature on a power of attorney and received a mortgage from Centex for Sheu's home.

After alerting the police, the bank that held the mortgage, and the title insurer, Sheu gathered together the forged paperwork, and the parties responsible were arrested and sent to jail.

Sheu assumed that would be the end of it, but Centex--the issuer of the bogus mortgage--ignored the police reports as well as the evidence and foreclosed on the house.

The foreclosure sale occurred January 28, 2005.

“Centex bought the property for $1,000 from Amy Cheng, the fraudster,â€