Former Durham police detective Robert Silipo is facing a nearly $300,000 lawsuit claiming he was involved in an alleged pre-construction home sales scam. But, Silipo says he's a victim himself.
A former Durham Regional Police detective is being sued for nearly $300,000 by people from whom he collected pre-construction home deposits when he was still a police officer for what allegedly turned out to be a scam.
Robert Silipo is one of six defendants named in a lawsuit filed in Oshawa, Ont., in June by the five plaintiffs who all claim he was their main point of contact for the home sales in 2022. The court filing also says he facilitated the execution of the ir agreements and mortgages on top of collecting $299,440 in now-missing deposits.
CBC News has reviewed text messages between Silipo and two of the plaintiffs, in which Silipo requests they meet him in a parking lot directly beside Durham’s central-east police division in Oshawa to exchange paperwork for the purchases.
“The fact that he met them in public [near] his place of work, which is a police station, obviously provided, I w
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