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What makes it more attractive these days to the crooks is, given how down in the dumps the housing market has been, those big down payments are just what the lenders want to see -- and they often aren't questioning where the funds come from. Almost any...
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State's Home Choice Loan scheme, according to Fine Gael TD Terence Flanagan. He said yesterday the scheme was an attempt to bail out developers but was proving to be a failure. "Almost one year after its inception, the Home Choice Loan scheme, which was...
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Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed complaints this week in Cook County Circuit Court against Loan Mod One, LLC, which has offices in Las Vegas, Nev., and West Dundee; Freedom Mortgage Team, Inc., of Chicago; and Living Modifications Corp., of Schaumburg,...
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The government is proposing to expand the Financial Services Authority's remit to cover buy-to-let and second-charge mortgages or additional loans on a home that is already subject to a mortgage. The FSA currently supervises primary mortgages, with additional...
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A 46-year-old Portland mortgage company operator was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to 41 months in prison for his role in nearly $4 million of mortgage fraud...Jones also sentenced Lee Howlett to three years of post-custody supervised release. Howlett admitted...
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A Miami-Dade pastor and his wife were convicted Monday for their roles in a $7 million money-laundering and mortgage-fraud scheme. Garry and Yvonne Souffrant, both 33, who live in Davie, stood trial in Miami federal court on charges of conspiring to defraud...
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The FBI is investigating allegations that confidential patient records were improperly released by University Medical Center in Las Vegas. More News Special Agent Joseph Dickey said Tuesday that the FBI criminal investigation was focused first on trying...
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In October 2006, I received a phone call from a subprime lender asking whether I appraised high-end properties in Kansas City. The call seemed pretty routine, as I had spent nearly 30 years as a real estate appraiser and completed about 20,000 appraisals...
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Inland Empire Prosecutors say they sold false real estate investments and committed grand theft in a scheme that bilked clients of $17 million and left many broke. Three Riverside County businessmen and four associates were criminally charged Thursday...
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Anthony Curtis Willis "accepted bribes to provide false notarizations on real estate documents for Mortgage Fraud Cell No...The amount of the bribes is not specified, with the documents saying only that Willis "did corruptly accept a thing of value."
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