Plain DealerCLEVELAND, Ohio The ringleader of a $7 million mortgage fraud scheme involving dozens of properties in the Cleveland area and elsewhere was sentenced Thursday to three-and-a-half years in…
Continue Reading...ABC2 NewsIn Detroit the city received $10 million from the mortgage fraud settlement to tear down about 5000 vacant homes around schools. They’re hoping to create green space and safer areas for children to go…
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A Hardy man pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to hide his role as a straw buyer in a Smith Mountain Lake mortgage fraud scheme. Dana Nuccio, 45, admitted in federal court in Lynchburg he did not declare on…
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Seven people have been indicted on federal charges in connection with an alleged mortgage fraud scheme that operated in the Lansing area from 2005 to 2007, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Grand Rapids said. The…
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Gaetano Antonelli was charged in July 2012, with three cases of organized fraud (less than $20,000). Antonelli’s scheme involved contacting individuals who were behind on their mortgage payments and deceiving them into signing the deed to their property over to him via Power of Attorney (so he could rescue them from their mortgage).
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Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) opened an extension of its Los Angeles, California, Mortgage Help Center in the Inland Empire region to provide free education and counseling services to struggling California homeowners.
(Source: John Futty The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio (MCT) The last of a dozen defendants admitted his involvement yesterday in a central Ohio mortgage-fraud scheme. Kevin E. Murphy, 51, of Estate View Dri
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Mortgage IntroducerPenniless and living in a caravan after mortgage fraud. A woman has been left penniless and living in a caravan after her estranged husband forged her signature in a…
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Kenneth Powell, 59, a former resident of Thousand Oaks, California, was sentenced by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kevin McGee to serve 18 years in state prison for his role in a real estate investment fraud scheme.
Two attorneys with a Forest Hills practice were convicted of mortgage fraud this week, according to the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn. Matthew Burstein and Aaron Rabinowitz, both 40, were found guilty on ten felony…
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