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2017-10-16 20:50
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Robert Pena, 68, Falmouth, Massachusetts, pled guilty in federal court in Boston in connection with defrauding the Government National Mortgage Associatio… Read More
2017-10-16 20:46
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Kevin Frank Rasher, 45, Orange County, California, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison Friday for fraudulently taking $2.2 million from distressed homeowners ba… Read More
2017-10-02 17:30
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David Harris Lavine, 58, Rockville, Maryland, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of theft of bank funds by a bank officer and bank fraud and Lavine and&nb&hell…Read More
2017-10-02 17:24
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Kwame Insaidoo, 61, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, the former executive director of United Block Association (“UBA”), a New York-based non-profit org… Read More
2017-10-02 17:16
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Ben Leske, 40, Puyallup, Washington, who worked as a loan officer for PC Bank Home Loans, a division of Pierce Commercial Bank, between 2005 and 2008 was sentenced… Read More
2017-10-02 17:08
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Bruce Kevin Hawkins, 52, Desoto, Texas, was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison and pay $219,109 in restitution for his role in a foreclosure rescue scheme that… Read More
2017-10-02 16:59
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Celia Nipper, aka Celia Arrand, 61, Dublin, California pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud, bank fraud, and filing false tax returns in connection with a scheme to e… Read More
2017-10-02 16:54
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Sean David Morton, 59, Hermosa, Beach, California was sentenced to six years in federal prison and his wife, Melissa Ann Morton, 51, Hermosa Beach, California, &hell…Read More
2017-10-02 16:42
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Thomas Scott Brown, 47, Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to three years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a bank fraud scheme… Read More
2017-10-02 16:40
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Francisco Javier Gonzalez, a/k/a “Javier Gonzalez,” 45, Duncanville, Texas, vice-president of Dallas County Community Action Committee, Inc., pleaded gu… Read More
2017-10-02 16:34
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The United States filed a civil complaint in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, against Paul Mangione, former Deutsche Bank head of subprime trading. In its complaint… Read More
2017-09-08 20:46
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Zaki M. Bey, 39, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 60 months in prison. Bey previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit loan… Read More
2017-09-08 20:42
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Daphne Iatridis, 59, and her husband, Arthur Telles, 59, were each sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to forfeit 26 fraudulently purchased prope… Read More
2017-09-06 21:09
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Hooshang Noori, a loan broker who operated Finance for Americans, Corp, doing business as Pacific Realty, Lake Forest, California, was indicted on one count of wire frau… Read More
2017-08-31 17:07
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Ralph Christopher Cirino was indicted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on six counts of mail fraud, four counts of misrepresentation of a social security number… Read More
2017-08-30 16:26
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Urmila Sri Thakur, also known as Urmila Buddhu-Thakur and Indro Buddhu-Thakur, 72, Wethersfield, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to a mo… Read More
2017-08-30 16:12
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Eugene Peter Kenworthy, Jr., 50, appraiser, Ambler, Pennsylvania, was charged by Indictment with wire fraud, false statements for the purpose of influenci… Read More
2017-08-30 15:53
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Thomas L. Boyd, 44, real estate investor, Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain… Read More
2017-08-30 15:49
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James Nassida, 49, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count of bank and wire fraud conspiracy before Senior United States District Judge Donetta Ambr… Read More
2017-08-30 15:12
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Edward E. Bohm, 39, Nissequogue, New York, Edward J. Sypher, Jr., 40, Scarsdale, New York, and Matthew T. Voss, 42, Northport, New York, all senior execut… Read More
2017-08-30 14:27
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Thomas M. Murtha, 61, attorney, Newtown, Connecticut, and Birmingham, Michigan, was indicted by a grand jury and charged with four counts of wire fraud. Murth… Read More
2017-08-30 14:18
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Laurance H. Freed, 54, Chicago, Illinois, a real estate developer and the president of Joseph Freed & Associates LLC, was sentenced to three years in prison in… Read More
2017-08-15 23:46
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Michael Quiroz, Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 36 months in prison. Quiroz was previously found guilty at tri… Read More
2017-08-15 20:36
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Margie P. Shephard, 51, Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice after forging a court order to get another inmate released from prison… Read More
2017-08-15 20:32
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Michael Rizzi, 45, Brooklyn, New York,and Edward Monahan, 45, Staten Island, New York, were each charged in a criminal complaint with one count of bank fr… Read More
2017-08-15 20:11
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Matt Garner, 34, licensed real estate appraiser, Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced in federal court to five months in prison and five months home confinement… Read More
2017-08-15 20:06
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Mahendra Prasad, 55, Fremont, California, was sentenced by to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $328,000 in restitution for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme… Read More
2017-08-15 19:15
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Lori Lynn Andrew, 48, Cashmere, Washington, the owner of Hartman Escrow, Inc., a now defunct real estate escrow firm, was indicted by a federal grand jury on ten co… Read More
2017-08-15 19:14
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Jeffrey Halpern, 62, Hewlett, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one coun… Read More
2017-08-15 18:59
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Robert Jacobsen, 69, formerly of Lafayette, California, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a scheme to use sham compa… Read More
2017-08-15 18:37
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Robert O. Moore, 68, Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court for his bank fraud conviction. Moore was sentenced to a 27-month term of imprisonment f… Read More
2017-08-15 18:19
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Dustin M. Lewis, 42, Henderson, Nevada and Brian Sorensen, 49, Las Vegas, Nevada, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count… Read More
2017-07-19 22:58
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Pierre Chainey, 42, Tabernacle, New Jersey, was sentenced to 54 months in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that caused $2.7 million in losses. Chaine… Read More
2017-07-19 22:56
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Ronald Rodis, 52, Long Beach, California was sentenced to 41 months in prison, and Charles Wayne Farris, 56, Aliso Viejo, California, was sentenced to serve 47… Read More
2017-07-19 22:51
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Richard Pierce, a Michigan business owner, was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison for obstructing and impeding the internal revenue laws and committing bank f… Read More
2017-07-19 22:47
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David Tyrone Johnson, 48, Washington, D.C., was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on federal charges arising from a real estate scheme involving forged m… Read More
2017-07-19 22:43
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Casey Padula, 48, Port Charlotte, Florida, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for conspiring to commit tax and bank fraud. According to court records, Padula had… Read More
2017-07-19 22:37
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Bradford Barneys, 51, Odenton, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years… Read More
2017-07-19 22:29
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Sammy Araya, 41, Santa Ana, California was sentenced to 20 years, Michael Henderson, 49, Costa Mesa, California was sentenced to 12 years, and Jen Seko, 36,&nb&hell…Read More
2017-06-30 18:12
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Anthony J. Atkins, 51, Eufaula, Alabama, was sentenced to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.4 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit bank… Read More
2017-06-27 23:08
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Rafael Popoteur, 65, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with conspiring to commit bank fraud between 2012 and 2014. He &hell…Read More
2017-06-27 23:04
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Ana Maritza Gomez, 44, Hyattsville, Maryland, was convicted by a federal jury of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and five counts of mail… Read More
2017-06-27 23:01
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Mark Steven Diamond, 60, Chicago, Illinois, a mortgage loan originator with offices in Chicago and Calumet City, was indicted and arraigned on federal fraud charges… Read More
2017-06-27 22:57
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Michael “Mickey” Henschel, 68, Van Nuys, California was indicted on an 11-counts for his alleged role as the mastermind of a foreclosure… Read More
2017-06-27 22:51
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Sergey Shchirskiy, 41, Sacramento, California, was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in prison for his participation in two mortgage fraud schemes and one tax… Read More
2017-06-27 22:47
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Christina Renee Caveny, 37, Dallas, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Bruce Kevin Hawkins, 52, Desoto, Texas, pleaded guil… Read More
2017-06-14 22:14
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Lurlyn A. Winchester, 58, New City, New York, a Justice for the Town Court of Monroe, was charged with making false statements in connection with an application for… Read More
2017-06-06 15:57
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Oscar Cantalicio Ortiz, 53, a contractor who had resided in Kingwood, Texas, prior to becoming a fugitive in this case, was sentenced in absentia to 262 months in p… Read More
2017-06-06 15:50
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Mark F. Speakman, 60, Grove City, Ohio, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for an investment fraud scheme that defrauded his clients out of more than $1.1 million… Read More
2017-06-06 15:37
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Luis Antonio Rodriguez, 36, Mission, Texas, and Rogelio Ramos Jr., 36, Pharr, Texas were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit wire fraud fo… Read More
2017-06-06 15:32
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Kevin Frank Rasher, 45, Coto de Caza, California, plead guilty to 12 counts of mail fraud relating to his operation of a fraud scheme that took $2.2 million from distres… Read More
2017-06-06 15:14
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Ignacio Beato, 46, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, pled guilty before United States District Judge James M. Munley to conspiracy to engage in monetary transaction… Read More
2017-05-23 17:00
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Kwame Insaidoo 60, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, the former executive director of United Block Association (“UBA”), a New York-based non-profit organizat… Read More
2017-05-23 16:55
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Drew Alia, 40, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, was sentence to a 12 month and 1 day term of imprisonment for willfully failing to file federal income tax… Read More
2017-05-23 16:51
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Thomas L. Boyd, 44, Memphis, Tennessee, are real estate investor, pled guilty to bank fraud. In September 2016, Boyd was indicted by a federal grand… Read More
2017-05-23 16:46
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David W. Schwarz, 60, Orlando, Florida, the former Chief Financial Officer of Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas (Cay Clubs), was sentenced to 40 years in prison… Read More
2017-05-23 16:38
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Karim Akil, also known as Scott Kinney, 50, Vallejo, California, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud and money launde… Read More
2017-05-23 16:20
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Ross D. Pickard, 63, Naples, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit loan and credit application fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal… Read More
2017-05-03 20:06
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
A businessman will get a new trial on mortgage fraud charges because his defense attorney was seen sleeping by the judge, witnesses and the federal court jurors who conv… Read More
2017-05-02 17:52
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Benjamin Bland, 41, Richmond, Virginia, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and social security fraud. According t… Read More
2017-05-02 17:17
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Timothy W. Burke, also known as “Bill Burke,” “William Burke,” “Kerry Saunders,” “Pat Riley,” “Jim Caldwell,”… Read More
2017-05-02 17:03
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Oscar Cantalicio Ortiz, 53, Kingwood, Texas, a Houston-area contractor, failed to appear for sentencing in a $16 million loan fraud scheme, and … Read More
2017-05-02 16:57
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Sammy Araya, 41, Santa Ana, California, Michael Henderson, 49,Costa Mesa, California, and Jen Seko, 36, Anaheim, California, were convicted by a federal jury in connecti… Read More
2017-05-02 15:22
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Michael Pampalone, 34, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, pled guilty to defrauding a Rensselaer, New York, resident of $132,450. As part of his guilty plea, Pampalone admi… Read More
2017-05-02 14:25
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Louis Marandola, 42, Providence, Rhode Island, a Former Real Estate Attorney, and Brian R. McCaffrey, 38, Warwick, Rhode Island, a former licensed loan originator, have… Read More
2017-05-02 14:18
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Michael Lane Prevette, Greensboro, North Carolina, was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment in federal court in connection with loan application and appraisal f… Read More
2017-05-02 13:45
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Jessie C. Litvak, 42, Boca Raton, Florida, was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in fraudulent resident… Read More
2017-05-02 13:33
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Ignacio Beato, 46, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was charged in a one count criminal information on April 26, 2017, with conspiracy to engage in monetary transaction… Read More
2017-04-17 19:08
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Jaime Jesus Sola Avila, a convicted felon, is wanted for his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme that operated between Miami, Tampa, and… Read More
2017-04-13 16:03
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Judge Jessica O’Brien, a small-claims judge in Cook County, Illinois, was indicted on allegations that she lied and concealed relevant facts from lenders to obtain… Read More
2017-04-10 16:30
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Kimberlee E. Himmell, 62, Massillon, Ohio, is alleged to have defrauded financial institutions out of more than $2 million by having escrow funds on home purchases… Read More
2017-04-10 16:13
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Sanjiv Kakkar, 55, Saratoga, California, was sentenced to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay $4,208,565.36 in restitution to the victim for wire fraud and makin… Read More
2017-04-10 16:08
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Jason J. Keating, 38, Toledo, Ohio, was sentenced to nine years in prison and Christopher J. Howder, 40, Perrysburg, Ohio, was sentenced to seven years in… Read More
2017-04-06 21:15
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Alejandro E. Mayendía-Blanco was sentenced to serve 21 months of imprisonment for mortgage fraud, five years of supervised release, pay a fine of $50,000, and&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-04-04 23:07
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Joseph Atias, 52, Great Neck, New York, and Sofia Atias, 47, Great Neck, New York were convicted of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and Medica… Read More
2017-04-04 23:03
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Tommy Rudy Habibe-Arias was charged in a one count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico, with making false statement… Read More
2017-04-04 20:46
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The nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers today urged Congress to protect the independence of real estate appraisers in the federal p… Read More
2017-03-28 19:20
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Dianna Woods, 60, Citrus Heights, California, was sentenced to three years in prison for four counts of making false statements on loan applications. According to eviden… Read More
2017-03-28 19:15
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Jasmin Polanco, 37, Methuen, Massachusetts, a real estate closing attorney, and Vanessa Ricci, 40, Methuen, Massachusetts. a mortgage loan officer, each pleaded guilty t… Read More
2017-03-15 22:13
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A recent comment from Brandon on the blog post Mortgage Mod Case Results in 10+ Year Sentences stated: “Couple of small pawns in a much larger game.kristen is… Read More
2017-03-14 22:28
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Martin Calzada, 29, Norwalk, California was found guilty by a federal jury after a four-day trial, of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and eight co… Read More
2017-03-14 22:25
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Anthony J. Atkins, 51, Eufaula, Alabama, was convicted by a Federal Jury after a 5-day trial, of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, four counts of false statements to a fe… Read More
2017-03-14 22:19
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Michelle Cabrera, 48, Miami Lakes, Florida, and Pedro Melian, 39, Hialeah, Florida, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to their par… Read More
2017-03-13 22:58
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Francisco Aguirre, aka Francisco X Aguirre-Proano, aka Francisco Xavier Aguirre aka Francisco Xavier Aguirre-Proano was indicted by an Arizona State Grand Jury… Read More
2017-03-10 22:43
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Matt Garner, appraiser, Lexington, Kentucky, was indicted and charged with bank fraud based on allegations that he used unlicensed surrogates to conduct reside… Read More
2017-03-10 22:00
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Herzel Meiri, who was indicted on March 16, 2016, on fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a scheme to fraudulently induce distressed homeowners to sell… Read More
2017-03-10 21:53
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Joseph W. Witkowski, 70, former New Jersey lawyer, Flemington, New Jersey, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy tha… Read More
2017-03-10 21:47
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
David Gotterup, 37, Oceanside, New York, was sentenced at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to 15 years in prison for leading a loan modification scheme… Read More
2017-03-10 21:42
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
David W. Schwarz, 60, Orlando, Florida, the former Chief Financial Officer of Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas (Cay Clubs) was convicted by a federal j… Read More
2017-03-03 23:15
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Gary Bryan Penrod was acquitted by a Federal Jury on twenty-two counts of mail fraud and wire fraud after trial in the Western District of Missouri Federal Cou… Read More
2017-03-02 14:41
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Rosemary Anton, Phoenix, Arizona, was charged by information in a short sale fraud and pled guilty to one count of conspiracy in the United States District Court fo… Read More
2017-03-01 22:34
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Michael Gerard Camphor, 60, Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 27 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on charges arising from th… Read More
2017-03-01 22:20
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Freddy Orjuela, Sr., 49, Sarasota, Florida, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and to pay $960,020 in restitution for making false statements in a mortgage loa… Read More
2017-03-01 22:18
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
George Heaton, 73, West Palm Beach, Florida, Deborah Dentry Baggett, 54, Greenville, Tennessee (formerly of Palm Beach County), and Eric Granitur, 59, Ver… Read More
2017-02-27 19:31
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Alla Samchuk, 45, Roseville, California, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme and obstruction of justice. A federal jury returned… Read More
2017-02-23 19:55
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
CoreLogic reported that the National Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index increased to 122 in the fourth quarter of 2016. The trend shows increasing risk for… Read More
2017-02-21 20:34
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Urmila Sri Thakur, also known as Urmila Buddhu-Thakur and Indro Buddhu-Thakur, 72, Wethersfield, Connecticut was charged in a nine-count grand jury indictment with consp… Read More
2017-02-17 18:41
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Homayoon Daneshvar, 63, Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The charges related to a $1.9 million real estate investment fraud scheme. Dansheva… Read More
2017-02-15 19:21
Mortgage Fraud Blog.
Cristina Montijo was the subject of a complaint and arrest warrant issued in the Southern District of New York on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fra… Read More
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