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                           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
                  DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
                      OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES



In the Matter of

     DARLENE V. SOLLIE and    .       HUDALJ 89-1327-DB  (LDP)
         SOLLIE REALTY

             Respondents



Richard T. Ince, Esquire
            For the Respondent

Geoffrey T. Roupas, Esquire
            For the Government

Before:     William C. Cregar
            Administrative Law Judge

                             INITIAL DETERMINATION

                             Statement of the Case

      This proceeding arose as a result of an appeal by the Respondents of a limited
denial of participation (LDP) issued by the Minneapolis Office of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development  (HUD). By letter dated January 27, 1989,
Respondents were denied participation in Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
single-family insurance programs until July 1, 1989.  A hearing on this matter
was held on April 25, 1989, in St. Paul, Minnesota.' The parties agreed to the
following statement of issues:

      1.    Whether Respondents participated in a scheme which overstated the
sales price of a property to be financed by an FHA loan, by taking a false or
misleading action, and making at least one false statement concerning the amount
of the sales price,
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resulting in FHA insurance from HUD in excess of the amount it should have been;
and whether these acts constituted irregularities as defined in 24 C.F.R.
24.26(a) (2), and are causes for a limited denial of participation.

      2.    Whether Respondents certified in connection with the HUD single family
mortgage insurance program that the sales price of a property was in excess of
what they knew it actually to be, and whether this was a false certification
constituting cause for a limited denial of participation under 24 C.F.R.
24.26(a) (7).

      3.    Whether Respondents made and/or procured to be made one or more false
statements concerning the sales price of the property for the purpose of influencing


     'The record was closed at the conclusion of the hearing.  On May 3, 1989,
Government's counsel filed a Motion to Reopen the Hearing Record for the purpose
of supplementing his closing oral argument on the issue of intent. Attached to
his Motion is the Government's Additional Closing Statement.  The Government
has not supplied any reason why the record should be reopened or why the additional
closing argument could not have been made at the conclusion of the hearing.
Accordingly, the motion is denied.  I have not given any consideration to the
matters contained in the attached Additional Closing Statement.

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