Peter Allen, Southfield, Michigan, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his participation in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud wherein Allen and his co-conspirators defrauded National City Bank and Fannie Mae.
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Associate Attorney General Tony West outlined the Justice Department’s approach to resolving the remaining cases related to Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) misconduct that contributed to the financial crisis. West declared that the department would not hesitate to bring litigation against these firms if these principles were not met.
The Federal Housing Administration published a Mortgagee Letter reminding lenders participating in the agency’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program to make certain senior borrowers are fully informed of all their options when applying for reverse mortgages.
Jon C. Cooper, 64, Washington, D.C., was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he filed a false tax return concealing embezzled income, and committed mortgage fraud, among other alled crimes.
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Che M. Brown, 45, Washington, D.C., was sentenced to three months of incarceration on a federal charge of bank fraud stemming from a scheme in which he submitted false documents to a mortgage lending service to win approval of a modification on a mortgage for his residence.
Che M. Brown, 44, Washington, D.C., pled guilty to a federal charge of bank fraud stemming from a scheme in which he submitted false documents to a mortgage lending service to win approval of a modification on a mortgage for his residence.
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Three separate suits have been filed in federal court to halt the allegedly deceptive tactics of three operations that preyed on distressed homeowners by falsely claiming they could save their homes from foreclosure, and then charging them thousands of dollars up-front, while delivering little or no help and often driving them deeper into debt.
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Bryan W. Talbott, 49, the president of a property management company, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding his clients, mortgage lenders, and the government of more than $2.8 million.
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted a nationwide scam operating from the Dominican Republic ““ but pretending to be in Chicago ““ that allegedly peddled fake mortgage assistance relief to financially distressed Spanish-speaking homeowners in the United States.
Carline M. Charles, 41, Silver Spring, Maryland, who operated a business that supposedly would rescue distressed homeowners from foreclosure, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders at least $1 million.
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