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The FBI is investigating whether Pistons' guard Lindsay Hunter and business
associates tricked a local boiler operator into buying a $1.25-million house
that he couldn't afford, according to Detroit Free Press.
Attorney Michael J. Smith said that his client Bruce McClellan of Waterford
Township recently told the FBI that Hunter and Iron Johnson, Hunter's
business partner, promised to pay him $300,000 last year to buy the
million-dollar house.
The deal called for McClellan to hold the house for one or two months until
it could be purchased by someone else.
Hunter could not be reached for comment, but his lawyer said, "Lindsey
Hunter hasn't done anything wrong. He was misled by other people who were
conducting transactions in the corporation. ... We're still trying to figure
out who did what."
McClellan told the FBI that he bought a car from Johnson, who discovered
that McClellan had excellent credit and introduced him to Hunter.
McClellan said Johnson and Hunter then proposed the real estate deal.
Although he told them he couldn't afford such an expensive house, McClellan
told the FBI they told him not to worry.
