Where a bank employee's knowledge of suspicious circumstances surrounding property transactions is attributable to the bank, an email exchange revealing proposals inconsistent with the loan application, combined with the borrowers' age, illiteracy, and vulnerability, may raise a serious question to be tried as to the bank's knowing assistance in fraud sufficient to support a stay of possession. Delay in seeking a stay is not fatal where no specific prejudice to the respondent is demonstrated.
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