EASLEY A local banker and developer pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud on Wednesday after a scandal that spanned from 2006-2008. According to United States Attorney Bill Nettles, William F…

A solicitor, two property speculators, a financial adviser and two surveyors are accused of perpetrating a huge mortgage fraud. A jury heard that the scale and extent of the fraud was difficult to envisage.

GREENBELT, MD United States District Judge Peter J Messitte sentenced Dennis O Edwards, age 49, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 21 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for…

New York Daily NewsBrooklyn-based real estate developer Schelton Assoumou was arrested today on charges of bank fraud and wire fraud for his participation in a multi-year mortgage fraud scheme. The defendant’s…

Three Pierce County women who played important roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that crippled now defunct Pierce Commercial Bank were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, announced…

CBS LocalLAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas lawyer has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and fraud charges in a mortgage scheme that prosecutors say cost banks $30 million. The 43-year-old Gerry Zobrist pleaded…

“He trusted people his wife dealt with,” Conners said. “I think you’ll find him not guilty on all counts.” The Internal Revenue Service and the FBI investigated the Kistner case as part of a mortgage-fraud task

The Maryland Mortgage Fraud Task Force was established to unify the agencies that regulate and investigate mortgage fraud and promote the early detection, identification, prevention, and prosecution of mortgage…

A Summerville real estate agent has pleaded guilty for his part in a $45 million mortgage fraud conspiracy and tax crimes, Live 5 News reported. Scott M. Wickershame, 33, was accused of conspiracy to committ…

It was alleged Adams and co-conspirators committed mortgage fraud between February and June 2006 by using straw buyers to buy nine properties ranging from $530,000 to $1.3 million in Tucson, Nogales and Vail.