Bank Fraud

NC Fraud Scheme Hits 2 Banks, 1 Cheated Last Year

(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 [...]


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How to Get a Better Deal at Your Bank

(Source: NASDAQ) – Pesky bank fees aren’t just creeping up — they’re attacking from all sides. Banks impose 49 different fees, on average, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Getting paper statements in the mail will cost you $1 to [...]


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Hefty Charges Weigh on RBS

LONDON (Source: The Wall Street Journal BY MARGOT PATRICK AND SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ) — Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC on Friday reported a large first-half net loss, driven by hefty charges for selling fraudulent payment-protection insurance and a markdown [...]


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Lawyer, Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud

(Source: Bloomberg Busisnessweek By NOMAAN MERCHANT) – An Arkansas lawyer and businessman admitted Wednesday to staging a Ponzi scheme that netted more than $47 million, a scam one prosecutor called the largest case of fraud in state history.


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Real Estate Agent From Norwalk Faces Sentencing For Fraud

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Source: Daily Journal) — A real estate agent from Norwalk is facing sentencing for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme.


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Societe Generale Undermined by Greek Debt Crisis After Kerviel

(Source: Bloomberg By Richard Tomlinson and Fabio Benedetti-Valentin) – In a locked room on the 33rd floor of Societe Generale (GLE) SA’s 36-story headquarters in western Paris, members of the bank’s fraud control team peer at their computers, scrutinizing the [...]


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Mortgage Executive Receives 30-Year Sentence

(Source: Dealb%%k By BEN PROTESS) – A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Lee B. Farkas, a former mortgage industry executive accused of masterminding one of the largest bank fraud schemes in history, to 30 years in prison.


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Iranian Company Duped U.S. Banks: New York Indictment

NEW YORK (Source: Noeleen Walder Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors took aim at Iran’s main state shipping line on Monday, indicting several companies and individuals for helping the blacklisted firm’s weapons proliferation activities by allegedly falsifying bank records.


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Real Estate Lawyer Going to the Slammer

MANHATTAN (Source: CN) – A real estate attorney on was sentenced to 5 years in prison for a $23 million mortgage fraud scheme. Cheddi Goberdhan “worked closely with corrupt loan officers of GuyAmerican Funding, a mortgage brokerage firm in Queens,” [...]


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Cal and Illinois Probe Robosigning Allegations

(Source; Bloomberg, by the associated press) – The top prosecutors in California and Illinois are investigating allegations that one of the nation’s largest mortgage processing companies engaged in the illegal practice of “robosigning” — signing thousands of foreclosure documents without [...]


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Five Plead Guilty in $5.4 Million Bank Fraud

PHOENIX (Source: Wmicentral) – Five defendants pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to defrauding banks out of $5.4 million in a conspiracy involving Surfside Boat Center, a high-end boat dealership in Mesa, Arizona, that is now defunct.


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