By Rick Daysog A federal grand jury has indicted three Sacramento residents for alleged money laundering and wire fraud as part of a wide-ranging mortgage fraud probe. The panel also filed new charges against…

CINCINNATI — A former University of Cincinnati basketball player and his ex-girlfriend were sentenced Thursday in a mortgage fraud conspiracy. Anthony Buford, 42, and his former girlfriend, 47, were each sente

Instead of using the money to pay off their old mortgages, they instead used the bulk of it to pay off old jobs pending in their escrow accounts. Chicago Title insured those deals, the indictment said. Troese…

While those plans were pending, FBI agents raided Natera’s 1944 Boston Ave. real estate office in connection with the mortgage fraud investigation. Documents filed in federal court claim that from January 2006…

New York Times During his State of the Union address last month, President Obama announced the formation of a multiagency financial crimes unit to prosecute mortgage-related fraud cases. Robert S. Khuzami, the h

Four people have pleaded guilty to charges in a $20 million mortgage scheme that involved more than a dozen Northern California properties. Seventy-six-year-old Ronald Nelson and his wife, 53-year-old Edith…

PAPALE also obtained mortgage financing using the names and credit information of the two individuals. The indictment further alleges that PAPALE submitted to the Florida settlement agent fraudulent invoices…

By Staff reports An Independence couple have pleaded guilty to federal charges of mortgage fraud in connection with three loans of more than $300000, including illegal kickbacks. Vavega Tialino, 61, and Toaono …

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