(Source: BBB) – Boise, Idaho . . . Gavin Gee, director of the Idaho Department of Finance, today warned that a company calling itself Freedom Companies Marketing, Inc., Freedom Companies, Inc., Freedom Companies Lending, and Freedom Financial Mortgage (Freedom) has [...]
SEAL BEACH (Source: Press Telagram By Tracy Manzer) — A Seal Beach real estate agent has been charged with 34 felony counts in connection with a scheme that saw victims buy into a fake investment pool to the tune of [...]
(Source: The Press Enterprise BY LESLIE BERKMAN) – Two men have been arrested by the San Bernardino County district attorney’s real estate fraud unit and charged with forgery and recording fake documents in an alleged scheme to defraud homeowners trying [...]
(Source: Media-Newswire.com) – The Federal Trade Commission put an end to three schemes that claimed they would help consumers with their mortgage and debt problems, as part of settlements with defendants who allegedly claimed a bogus affiliation with government assistance [...]
(Source: LomaLinda Patch By Bill Norris) – Two people were arrested after investigators from the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office Real Estate Fraud Unit searched a Fontana realty office.
RICHMOND, Va. (Source: Legal Newsline BY BRYAN COHEN) – Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced a lawsuit on Thursday against a Chesapeake, Va.-based mortgage loan modification company for allegedly charging illegal advance fees for its “foreclosure rescue” services.
FENNVILLE, Mich. (Source: NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A judge in Allegan County has convicted a Fennville woman on nine counts for her role in a mortgage fraud rescue scheme.
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek) – Virginia has reached a settlement with one mortgage loan modification company and sued another.
MATAWAN (Source: GM News) — A borough firm was among seven mortgage loan modification firms targeted by the state Division of Consumer Affairs for illegally offering mortgage modification services to homeowners in dire financial straits.
WHITE PLAINS, NY (Source: WCBS 880) – Former North Castle Republican chairwoman Loronda Murphy has been indicted for mortgage fraud.
NEW YORK (Source: MarketWatch) — Through all the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, at least one industry continues to thrive.
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek By EMERY P. DALESIO) – A crooked loan officer, a disbarred attorney and a third man could get long prison sentences for their role in a mortgage fraud that victimized two North Carolina banks, federal prosecutors said [...]
(Source: Fox News) – Let’s assume you live in one of the geographical areas hardest hit by the home mortgage crisis. The economic boom that your lender assured you would continue to boost the value of your home has turned [...]
LAS VEGAS (Source: The republic) — The Nevada Attorney General says two men have been sentenced and ordered to pay restitution in connection with a mortgage scam involving Nevada homeowners.
MIAMI (Source: Local10) – Four members of a Miami company were arrested, accused of stealing $750,000 from hundreds of clients in a mortgage modification scam.
(Source: By Diane C. Lade, Sun Sentinel) – The owners of a Miami home loan modification company were arrested on criminal charges Wednesday for allegedly defrauding 500 homeowners statewide out of $750,000, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said. The Attorney [...]
NEW YORK, NY – August 16, 2011 – (Source: The Lawyers’ Committee and Davis Polk) — This morning, Justice John M. Galasso of the Nassau County Supreme Court issued a sweeping order shutting down one of New York’s largest mortgage [...]
(Source: Las Vegas Sun By Steve Kanigher) – A District Court judge sentenced one man to prison and another man to probation in connection with a mortgage scam involving Nevada homeowners, the Nevada attorney general’s office said today.
(Source: New York Daily News) – A judge shut down a Long Island mortgage brokerage accused of ripping off hundreds of struggling homeowners through loan modification scams.
(Source: Daily Finance By Catherine New) – Some homeowners in their 50s are taking advantage of historic low rates to refinance their homes and score themselves a mortgage-free retirement.
(Source: Colin Campbell, Press TV, Washington) – But the FBI is saying that isn’t the case for all realtors. In fact, crimes involving mortgages are on the rise. Mortgage and investment schemes targeting troubled U.S. homeowners jumped in 2010 and [...]
(Source: By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) – The owner of a Trafford real estate company has been indicted on charges of structuring bank withdrawals with a fugitive who disappeared in 2008.
(Source: The News Tribune Posted By C.R. Roberts) – The state Department of Financial Institutions is announcing that it has received complaints from consumers relating to loan modification services that were to be – but were not – provided by [...]
(Source: ABC News) – Government agencies in Western Australia have launched a taskforce to investigate a reported real estate scam – the second of its kind in a year.
(Source: SMH) – A Perth couple who returned home to find their property had been sold without their knowledge or permission might not be the only victims of a real estate scam targeting absent owners.
Aug. 06 (Source: By Christine Harvey, The Seattle Times) – Washington state has taken on a subsidiary of Bank of America, charging it with illegally foreclosing on thousands of homeowners in the last three years.
(Source: Albert Lea Tribune) – Homeowners experiencing troubles with mortgage lenders after their monthly mortgage payments are modified are common in Minnesota.
(Source: Miami New Times) – Guilty, guilty: Elroy Phillips, who claims to have evidence proving he is innocent, and the dirty cop he claims set him up should be sitting together in a cell (“Almost Innocent,” Eric Barton, August 4). [...]
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