By Charlie Conchie Home REIT has been mired in scandal for over a year. For the first time, City A.M. can reveal the existence of a previously undisclosed businessman in the middle of a string of its property deals In January last year, one of the charity tenants of crisis-hit social housing investor Home REIT emailed two of its investment chiefs with a question. This was nothing out of the ordinary. The bosses of Home REIT’s investment manager, Charlotte Fletcher and Alex Baker, had been bombarded by emails and calls after a damning short-seller report sent the fund into a tailspin two months…