Escrow violations and kickback allegations have reared their heads once again to drag some of L.A.’s most well-known reality TV stars and Douglas Elliman into two dueling lawsuits filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. The legal mudslinging alleges Elliman’s Altman Brothers Team inflated commissions in closing paperwork, while the brokerage’s escrow subsidiary Portfolio Escrow accused its own former managing director, Maria Trangelo-Molina, of a kickback scheme with Oppenheim Group’s Jason Oppenheim. Portfolio is the escrow subsidiary of Douglas Elliman, which the brokerage acquired in 2020. None of the reality TV stars or their respective businesses are named as […]
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