However, the only reference to Homeland Security I’ve seen is a post of a seeming “wish list” of investigative agencies by the OP in the Norada thread, who, if you read his posts, is obviously less than a reliable source of information and consumed by rage.  

The judge in charge of the case was accused of secretly having sexual relations with an attorney arguing a case before her and was suspended while under investigation.

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Currently, I have been living in the Lisbon area (Cascais) for about 2.5 years.After some investigation into the Portuguese Real Estate market we (my wife and I) decided that with Portugal’s rapidly growing tourist influx that the risk/reward calculus pointed to STR.

FBI now investigating ... hows life in a camper van Chimene ??

I have reported them to the state of Delaware which is where they claimed to have an office, however, further investigation of the address shows there is no such address.   

You do lead me to a point of maybe I should investigate their financial stability a bit more.The guy with the 4 plex I talked to WAS thinking about taking the $120k.

Investigate "transactional funding" and "joint ventures".    

I did not investigate further but took them at their word.

If this were a brick and mortar bank (now I switched to one), this would have been flagged to me before the bank took the action of refunding the money, triggering an investigation.