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The tension reached a fever pitch when the county filed a notice of default. Suddenly, the Anthony’s mansion was on the auction block, and creditors were circling like sharks. Investigators dug into bank records and found the family had refinanced the mansion twice after Carmelo’s arrest, pulling out millions in equity while donations kept rolling in. Real estate expert Linda Moore called it “a textbook case of overleveraging. They gambled everything on a comeback that never came.”
