An old family home in Washington DC has become the latest center in the battle over home equity theft—a practice where government can legally seize a property to cover an unpaid tax debt, sell it for far more than the amount of the debt, and then keep all the money from the sale, even if it amounts to thousands more than what they were owed. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is representing 85-year-old Juanita Powell in the lawsuit, and they submitted their version of events to the court on May 23. Mrs. Powell is the personal representative of her late husband Gaston Powell Jr.’s estate,...
