‘It's just really sad': North Texas surrogate reacts to scandal involving Houston escrow company

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The owner of a surrogacy escrow company is accused of spending clients' money on lavish lifestyles, leaving couples in limbo to pay surrogates.

The owner of a surrogacy escrow company is accused of spending clients' money on lavish lifestyles, leaving couples in limbo to pay surrogatesThe scandal involving a Houston-based surrogacy escrow company continues to impact hundreds of people in Texas and around the globe."These people are putting not only their savings and their last amount of money, but also their last amount of hope," said Katie Lynch, who also used the company herself and lost thousands.

"He's perfect, he’s happy, he’s healthy, and we’re so excited," expressed Lynch. It's still surreal; it still doesn’t feel real. The sleep exhaustion feels real, but you try for something for so long, and now I’m a mom, and it’s crazy.” "I was sort of being naive, 'Like, well, we're friends, can I just like Venmo her?' And they were like,' 'No.' This is a huge job. It's a huge amount of money, and to protect both sides, you really need to use an escrow company as a third party," explained Lynch.“I just picked SEAM out of the two, and the onboarding was easy. Vicky, getting signed up with them was easy. Everything was great until it wasn't," said Lynch.

"It was a gut feeling, I just had a feeling that we should wait and see make sure things were on the up and up," said Ursi. "We're lucky with the timing of when it happened in our journey, but you know, that's just luck. Four months earlier, and we would have been running around stressed, not knowing what to do," said Lynch's husband, John.

She and more than 800 others are part of a Facebook group that continues to track what happened and share stories. Some have contacted their various lawmakers.

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