A Detroit judge at the center of an FBI investigation teamed with two criminals to help buy and sell homes belonging to vulnerable people in the probate court system for far less than the properties' market value, according to records that shed light on a public corruption and bribery probe.

The judge, Andrea Bradley-Baskin of 36th District Court, and other targets of the FBI investigation were involved in the sale of at least five homes owned by the estates of incapacitated people, the elderly and those with mental health problems in Metro Detroit since 2020, property records show. In several instances, those homes were sold to the boyfriend of a court-appointed guardian after Bradley-Baskin proposed the sale or drafted the deeds, including a Dearborn Heights ranch that was flipped in le

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