by MortgageOrb.com on Friday 18 November 2011 Employment and income fraud risk is on the rise, according to Interthinx’s quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Report, which covers data from the third quarter…

By Anonymous BOSTON The ringleader of a mortgage fraud scheme that involved 26 multi-family properties in the Boston area has been sentenced to four years in jail. New Hampshire resident Joshua Brown

LANSING Earlier this year, the state of Michigan was listed as one of the top 10 states for mortgage fraud. But a new set of bills passed late last month will increase penalties and give more…

The Bay Citizen State Attorney General Kamala Harris had made mortgage fraud one of her top priorities, creating a task force to examine practices that leveled California’s housing industry and led to a wave of…

OKLAHOMA CITY A federal grand jury has indicted SAFIYYAH TAHIR BATTLES, from Oklahoma City, for mortgage fraud, announced Sanford C Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In

In his plea agreement, he admitted to conspiring to commit mortgage fraud from March through June of 2006. He admitted to purchasing a residential property but didn’t tell the mortgage lender that his company…

Steven J. Kottage, 45, of Weston, was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in two mortgage fraud conspiracies. Kottage, along with his husband…

TUCSON – A Tucson man has been indicted in a mortgage fraud scheme, according to the US Attorney’s office. A grand jury in Tucson returned an indictment against Juan Delgado of Tucson, charging him with four…

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…

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…