Well, mother-in-law's developer collapsed in the middle of building their development, and managed to empty the escrow accounts using forgery and fraud on the w

Well, mother-in-law's developer collapsed in the middle of building their development, and managed to empty the escrow accounts using forgery and fraud on the way out the door. That's not really the same scale as what we're talking about here, so much, though. Being from Connecticut, this case comes to mind as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London Where a developer planned some huge build, forced people out of their homes via eminent domain, and then never actually broke ground at all. These companies shut down once they hit some snag and then pop up somewhere else under a different name.