Opinion ID: 2555874
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Heading: The First Amended Complaint in the Federal District Court.

Text: Respondents, on 21 January 2008, amended their initial filing, removing Sussex as a defendant, which had filed for bankruptcy protection. The first amended complaint also added Farahpour as a defendant, as well as Wilbur Ballesteros (Ballesteros), [6] a former employee of Sussex. (This matter involves the single largest mortgage scam in . . . Mid-Atlantic history . . . and involved the willful participation of so-called real estate professionalsincluding. . . licensed settlement agents Sussex Title, LLC . . . and its part owners and employees, Alexander Chaudhry,. . . Ali Farahpour . . . [and] Wilbur Ballesteros. . . .). The first amended complaint, however, did not name Norman as an involved third party or defendant. In the vast majority of instances where the complaint refers to the owners and employees of Sussex, it included a qualifying descriptor. For example, the complaint states that [t]o finance the foreclosure reversal transactions, the owners and/or employees of Sussex . . . Chaudhry, Farahpour and Ballesteros arranged and settled federally related mortgage loans. . . . [7] In most other occasions, the first amended complaint refers to the Sussex-related participants as Sussex, Chaudhry, Farahpour and Ballesteros. . . . [8]