One of the few people I’ve gotten to know who actually went to prison for mortgage fraud is a 50-year-old grandmother from Southern California named Maria Echeverria. Things are looking up for Echeverria…
Continue Reading...Frederic Alan Gladle, 53, Austin, Texas, pleaded guilty to his role in operating a foreclosure rescue scam in Southern California and elsewhere that charged distressed homeowners fees in exchange for fraudulently postponing foreclosure sales.
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AP SACRAMENTO, California A Northern California man who was caught hiding $70000 in his cowboy boots has pleaded guilty to federal charges in a $19 million mortgage fraud scheme. Christopher Warren…
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She pled guilty under the first offender act on January 6 to one count of residential mortgage fraud. Court records show that Dallas kept proceeds from a real estate sale that she facilitated based on a…
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog) Those with long memories may recall the north Minneapolis real estate debacle from 1995 to 1998, when property flippers relied on fraudulent documents to pump mortgages through…
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A real estate fraud notification program was implemented in Contra Costa County, California. The purpose of the notification system is to make homeowners aware of recorded transactions to lessen the likelihood of forgeries and fraudulently recorded documents.
Barry Winnett, 49, Roseville, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to three years and two months in prison and full restitution for wire fraud for his participation in a scheme that defrauded real estate investors of $2.9 million.
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James Darrell Ober, 43, Hudson, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of properties and millions of dollars in Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgages.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH Federal prosecutors have indicted five people in connection to an alleged mortgage fraud scheme that involved nine Panama City Beach properties and nearly $9 million. Investigators s
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By Brendan Kirby, Press-Register MOBILE, Alabama A federal judge here today sentenced a Baldwin County man to 2 years in prison but spared the defendant’s wife for aiding a massive
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