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Nevada AG Renews Mortgage Fraud Battle

(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.


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Real Estate Agent Charged in Scheme

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 [...]


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Two Arrested in Real Estate Fraud Case

(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 [...]


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Marketers Falsely Claimed to Be Affiliated with Federal Assistance Programs, Agency Alleges

(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 [...]


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Two Arrested in Real Estate Fraud Scheme

(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.


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Fennville Woman Convicted on 9 Counts for Mortgage Fraud

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.


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Former North Castle Republican Chairwoman Indicted For Mortgage Fraud

WHITE PLAINS, NY (Source: WCBS 880) – Former North Castle Republican chairwoman Loronda Murphy has been indicted for mortgage fraud.


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Mortgage Fraud: An Industry That Won’t Quit

NEW YORK (Source: MarketWatch) — Through all the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, at least one industry continues to thrive.


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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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Miami Mortgage Loan Modifiers Arrested on Fraud, Racketeering Charges

(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 [...]


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Is Now the Time to Refinance Your Mortgage?

(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.


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Beware Loan Mod Fraud

(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.


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Real Estate Fraud Is “Bigger Than Ever”

(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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AIG Sues BofA for $10 Billion Alleging “Massive Fraud”

(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. [...]


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Five Lawyers Charged In $58M Mortgage Fraud Scheme

(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 [...]


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Palm Beach, Delray Loan Officers Plead Guilty in $2.5M Mortgage Scheme

(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 [...]


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13 Charged in $60 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme

(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.


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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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State Cracks Down on 7 Allegedly Fraudulent Loan Modification Companies

(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 [...]


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U.S. Attorney Accuses 27 in South Florida of Mortgage Fraud

(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.


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Florida Bar Disciplines 22 Attorneys

(Source: srpressgazette) – The Florida Bar, the state’s guardian for the integrity of the legal profession, announces that the Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders disciplined 22 attorneys, disbarring 10 and suspending 10. Some attorneys received more than one [...]


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Straw Man Mortgage Fraudster Headed to Federal Prison

(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 [...]


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SJ Man Pleads in Real Estate Fraud Case

(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.


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Feds Case Against Jerry Haymon Mortgage Fraud Scheme Laid Out

(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.


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Jackson Minister Begins 16-Year Sentence for $10 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme

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.


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Experts Suspect Real Estate Fraud In Royal Palm Beach

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.


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Calls for Answers to Why AG Fired Attorneys Probing Mortgage Fraud

(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.


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Va. Beach Man Charged In Mortgage Rescue Fraud Case

(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.


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Former Minnesota Female Real Estate Broker Charged in Mortgage Fraud Scheme

(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 [...]


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Connecticut Real Estate Agent Sentenced to Prison for Short Sale Mortgage Fraud Scheme

(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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