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…

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…

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

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

When a person completes a real estate transaction that they perceived to be legitimate, it can come as a huge shock if they are suddenly accused of criminal mortgage fraud in Arizona. Even if a person is not…

Toronto’s housing market is strong, and by all accounts real estate investors have been doing very well for themselves, and so this Star article about a lawyer who allegedly helped clients…

USA TODAY If you suspect you have been a victim of a mortgage modification scam related to HAMP, contact the SIGTARP hot line at 877-744-2009. Yet scam artists have convinced struggling homeowners to pay a fee…

The charismatic South Florida trader, who rode the crest of the housing boom by popularizing risky investments in mortgage pools, defended himself at his federal civil fraud trial in November in West Palm Beach…

News10.net Two West Sacramento residents were indicted Thursday for their part in a mortgage fraud scheme amounting in losses of $710000 to lenders. According to US District Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, a federal…

Plain Dealer (blog) CLEVELAND — A federal judge today sentenced two major players in one of the country’s largest mortgage fraud schemes to lengthy prison terms. Tony Viola, a real estate company owner from…