the criminal convictions. They argued that the tax deed sales were void, because the notices had been deliberately sent to wrong addresses, and that the estate purchases had been obtained through fraud.
Eleven families and 640 acres were involved.
It took another eighteen months. But in the end, Pell County settled. The county attorney, facing the federal convictions and a stack of evidence two feet tall, recommended that the commission agree to set aside every tax deed sale where notice had been fraudulently misdirected. Under the settlement, nine of the
