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Loan was too good to be true

Robin and William Fitzgerald always wanted to buy a home, but with no savings, mediocre credit and jobs as a legal secretary and truck driver, they thought it was beyond their reach.

Then, in 2005, the Fitzgeralds believed their luck had turned.

Through a friend, they met Aaron Wider, a Garden City mortgage banker who also owned several homes in the Massapequa area. They settled on...

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