(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek) – Nevada’s attorney general wants a federal judge in a big mortgage fraud case to set aside an earlier consent judgment so the state can sue Countrywide Financial Corp. and Bank of America for consumer fraud.
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.
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.
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: 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 [...]
(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: NBC Bay Area News) – Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and other prosecutors around the state warned the public Tuesday to watch out for loan modification frauds that prey on distressed homeowners, including scams that target Latino homeowners.
(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). [...]
(Source: Reuters By Jonathan Stempel) – The insurer AIG is suing Bank of America Corp to recover more than $10 billion of losses from a “massive fraud” on mortgage debt, deepening the morass of litigation faced by the largest U.S. [...]
(Source: Wall Street Journal By Chad Bray) – Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday charged fourteen people in an alleged $58 million mortgage fraud, including five lawyers, one of whom previously had been disbarred. The scheme, which ran from [...]
(Source: By Toni-Ann Miller Palm Beach Post Staff Writer) – Three of the four loan officers charged in a $2.5 million reverse mortgage and loan modification scheme have plead guilty, a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice said [...]
(sOURCE: fOX nEWS By Jana Winter) – The FBI has arrested 10 people charged with participating in a $60 million mortgage fraud ring early Thursday morning in the New York area, FoxNews.com has learned.
(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.
(Source: By Sarah Portlock / The Star-Ledger) – Seven unlicensed mortgage loan modification businesses are facing cease and desist orders from the state’s Attorney General as part of a crackdown on financial fraud schemes, the state Division of Consumer Affairs [...]
(Source: The Miami Herald By TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA) – Four separate indictments were unsealed Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami accusing 27 people in various mortgage fraud schemes against banks and South Florida homeowners.
(Source: Forbes By Bill Singer) – Federal prosecutors alleged that from 2005 through 2007, Micah Meyers, a former manager at Islip, New York based mortgage brokerage firm Bridgewater Funding, LLC (“Bridgewater”), submitted fraudulent loan applications as part of a scheme [...]
(Source: NBC Bay Area) – A South Bay man is due to be sentenced in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Dec. 15 to five years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed real estate projects of $1.2 million.
(Source: BY Teresa Auch Schultz) – Federal prosecutors have laid out part of their case against Gary businessman Jerry Haymon, describing testimony they say will show how he created a mortgage fraud scheme that took in $300,000.
JACKSON, Miss. (Source: The Republic) — A Jackson minister has reported to prison to serve a 16-year term for his part in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved more than $10 million in fraudulent loans.
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. (Source: Kimberly Miller, Palm Beach Post) – The neatly kept Kensington condominiums, fronted by a fountain, guard house and regal name, hold on to a pretense of Wellington wealth.
(Source: WCTV) – A Democratic state legislator joined the call Wednesday for information from Attorney General Pam Bondi on why she fired two assistant attorneys general who were heavily involved in investigating alleged mortgage fraud.
(Source: By Tim McGlone The Virginian-Pilot) – A Virginia Beach man who ran a mortgage rescue company has been indicted on charges of bilking customers out of millions of dollars.
(Source: FBI) MINNEAPOLIS—Late the past Friday afternoon a 29-year-old St. Paul woman was charged with participating in a scheme to defraud mortgage lenders out of more than $5 million. Lindsey Rae Loyear was charged via an information with one count [...]
(Source: FBI) – David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANNA McELANEY, 40, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to eight months of imprisonment, followed [...]
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