Prosecutor: Women were scammed

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When Betty Bullock?s husband died in October 2003, and she couldn?t meet her mortgage payments, she thought Robert Pukall was trying to help her save her Ellicott City home from foreclosure.

He bought her home for about $122,000, and started charging Bullock about $3,000 rent. When she couldn?t make payments, he told her she could buy it back for full market price ? about $400,000 ? and then planned to evict her, she said.

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