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