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 [...]
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, [...]
5 people pleaded guilt in federal court Thursday for their part in a homebuilder mortgage fraud scheme that involved false loan applications, kickbacks and duping investors. Twin brothers Anthony B. Grant and Antonio B. Grant, 43, both of Simpsonville, and their business partner Michael D. Holmes, 37, of Lawrenceville, Ga., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to [...]
A federal grand jury has indicted Rolando Alonzo Cousins, a/k/a “Junior,” age 31, of Bowie, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and money laundering, in connection with a massive mortgage fraud scheme which promised to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes and repair their damaged credit, but left them homeless and with no [...]
” The Colorado Division of Real Estate ” is investigating allegations that a state senator and the mortgage company where he works engaged in false advertising. Division Director Erin Toll says state investigators believe Republican Senator Ted Harvey and the company where he works as a mortgage broker, ” American Home Funding “, misled customers [...]