Is Lindsey Hunter, the veteran guard of the Detroit Pistons, a victim of mortgage fraud? Or is he a perpetrator?

That’s what two investigations, one by the Wayne County Register of Deeds’ mortgage-fraud task force, the other by the FBI, want to determine.

So far, Wayne County investigators consider him a victim, with someone else serving as what they describe as “a mastermind.” The FBI, on the other hand, according to sources close to its investigation, has him as its main focus and as a leading participant in at least two possibly fraudulent deals that went awry.

To Bruce McClellan of Waterford Township, a boiler operator with the Pontiac Schools, there is no doubt about Hunter’s role.

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