Con artists who promise to help homeowners modify their mortgage loans for a fee but wind up ripping them off have caught the attention of Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and her Mortgage Fraud…

Plain Dealer (blog)The new charges against Pasternak involve 58 loans totaling $3.5 million that were obtained through Crossland Financial Group, which was raided by US postal inspectors and members of the…

On December 29, 2010, defendant Michael Cassadei was sentenced to twenty-seven (27) months in prison, to be followed by three years’ supervised release, for his role as organizer of the mortgage fraud scheme…

Business Insider Millions of Americans are on the brink of foreclosure and crooks are using the opportunity to amp up their mortgage fraud business. This type of fraud is nothing new, but like all crimes…

A Tampa couple has pled guilty to criminal charges in a mortgage-fraud ring that took in nearly $9 million from troubled real estate stretching from Tampa to Orlando, the Florida Attorney General’s Office…

Brown and his cohorts worked to create inflated appraisals and fraudulent sales agreements that allowed them to collect tens of thousands of dollars in profits from each sale, officials said. They also worked…

A Utah man on Thursday in federal court pleaded guilty to mail fraud for his part in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme, involving 20 Modesto properties, according to the US attorney’s office…

The majority of home and condominium sales along the Grand Strand for years have been fueled by mortgage fraud, according to an affidavit filed in federal court by admitted felon Kenneth Paul Holmes…

Wall Street Journal A middleman buys the property at the lower price, then turns around and resells the property to a legitimate buyer at a higher price—often on the same day—according to a…