Mortgage Fraud – Google and other search engines profiting from Mortgage Fraud ads Google has a policy of prohibiting deceptive advertising, such as those placed by mortgage fraudsters, however one group says the giant search engine company doesn’t typically ban misleading ads from a questionable advertiser until after a company is sued by federal regulators. [...]
Mortgage Fraud – Real Estate Renting Scams Real estate scams are prevalent today and are showing no signs of going away. A common form of these scams involves a con artist advertising a house as a rental when it is not. In fact, it’s a house that is actually for sale and being advertised on [...]
Mortgage Fraud – Better Choice Investments : Phoenix Police Lts Phoenix police Lts. Mark Tallman and Lee Brent Shaw have been placed on administrative leave after settling a mortgage fraud lawsuit with the attorney general. In the judgment, they agree to pay $458,000, much of which will go to 148 victims, who claim Tallman and [...]
Mortgage Fraud Scheme – Clean Slate Financial Services Shanita Lacy, age 34, of Chesapeake, Virginia, pleaded guilty today in Norfolk federal court to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain home mortgages. According to court documents, Lacy admitted that, during 2007 and 2008, she conspired with others [...]
Mortgage Fraud – Fraud complaint filed against JPMorgan Chase & Co. Irving H. Picard, the Trustee for the liquidation for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (“BLMIS”) today announced the filing of a complaint in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York against JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., [...]
Mortgage Fraud – ‘Richmond Mortgage’ of Indiana Kathy Puckett was a co-owner of Richmond Mortgage and served as its sole mortgage originator. Puckett’s job was to prepare loan documents including loan applications and other documents supporting buyers’ income and ability to pay. Between March 2006 and February 2008, Puckett submitted false information to the lenders [...]
Ally wasn’t the only major lender that had a foreclosure process dependent on a few corporate bureaucrats. Beth Ann Cottrell said, in a sworn deposition in May that she signed off on thousands of mortgage foreclosures a month for JPMorgan Chase even though she did not verify the accuracy of the information. In one instance [...]
A Florida state court judge, in a rare ruling, said a major national bank perpetrated a “fraud” in a mortgage foreclosure lawsuit, raising questions about how the Wall Street banks are attempting to claim homes from borrowers in default. The ruling, made last month in Pasco County, Fla., comes amid increased scrutiny of mortgage foreclosures [...]
Federal charges against a Framingham real estate lawyer Michael R. Anderson this week bring the number of people charged in an expanding mortgage fraud case to 4 that led to scores of abandoned and foreclosed properties in Dorchester and Roxbury. Anderson, 41, was charged Wednesday in US District Court with 27 counts of wire fraud, [...]
Is A Reverse Mortgage Right for You? These days, that hype is about reverse mortgages so check it out to make sure it is not fraud. A good percentage of reverse mortgage products fall flat. But every once in a while, one will take hold in a way that even the experts didn’t see coming. [...]
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