BALTIMORE — A Harford County home builder has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in fines over alleged violations of Maryland's Consumer Protection Act.

On Monday the Maryland Attorney General's Office announced its findings that Korey Homes Building Group, LLC improperly took and used customer money, despite failing to complete work they'd promised.

In some cases when the company did its job, they often delivered homes with significant defects.

The State said Korey Homes "misappropriated consumer money through a Ponzi-like scheme."

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Maryland law requires home builders to hold customer deposits and other advance payments in an escrow account, separate from their own operating account, to insure consum

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