“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”
Oh bullshit.
Sellers have a right to accept lower bids, or to accept non-monetary “value” and it happens literally every day in real estate.
What I don’t know is whether the nature of the auction actually changes things.