AG Cracks Down on Mortgage Fraud

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ABC7Chicago.com Madigan offers a mortgage foreclosure help line and she says they’ve received more than 4000 calls, half of which are complaints about mortgage rescue fraud. Some companies are using a loophole…

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A 41-year-old Missouri woman admitted in a federal court in St. Louis today to stealing from more than 80 Hawaii residents in a mortgage rescue scam. Marien Brown, known to her victims as Marien White…

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Douglas Rex Butler pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in a $20 million mortgage fraud, making the Chanhassen man the third to admit his involvement in the case. Butler, 52, was a straw buyer in a scheme…

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Morris Olmer, 83, New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in an extensive mortgage fraud conspiracy that defrauded lenders of more than $4.4 million.

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A year after his $6.9 million-mortgage fraud scheme was uncovered in a 2006 Tampa Tribune investigative story, Chad Evans was under pressure amid a federal government investigation. So he left town…

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MyFox Tampa Bay… pair of lawsuits filed Monday claim that Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, should pay $7.6 billion in damages for failing through years of audits…

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Morris Olmer, a Democrat who represented New Haven in 1967 and ’69 and a former member of New Haven’s Board of Alderman, was convicted by a jury in April of conspiring to defraud the government, eight counts of…

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A Texas woman accused of reverse mortgage fraud could face up to 30 years in prison, a $1 million fine, or both, a US Attorney in Rochester, NY announced last week. Mary Ann Fulbright, of Dallas…

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PHOENIX (AP) A Scottsdale man and his son have been indicted by a federal grand jury in a mortgage fraud case. Prosecutors said Friday that 61-year-old Jerry E. Craig Sr. and 42-year-old…

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A year after his $6.9 million-mortgage fraud scheme was uncovered in a 2006 Tampa Tribune investigative story, Chad Evans was under pressure amid a federal government investigation. So he left town, …and more

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