The FBI is investigating whether Pistons' guard Lindsay Hunter and business associates tricked a local boiler operator into buying a $1.25-million house that he couldn?t afford, according to Detroit Free Press.

Attorney Michael J. Smith said that his client Bruce McClellan of Waterford Township recently told the FBI that Hunter and Iron Johnson, Hunter?s business partner, promised to pay him $300,000 last year to buy the million-dollar house.

The deal called for McClellan to hold the house for one or two months until it could be purchased by someone else.

Hunter could not be reached for comment, but his lawyer said, "Lindsey Hunter hasn?t done anything wrong. He was misled by other people who were conducting transactions in the corporation. ... We?re still trying to figure out who did what."