California had more reports of suspected mortgage fraud on a per-capita basis than any other state, followed by Florida and Nevada. By E. Scott Reckard No comments have been posted to this article.

The former Roslyn attorney convicted in a massive adoption scam was convicted Thursday of an unrelated attempted mortgage scheme. A Nassau County jury found Kevin Cohen guilty of attempted grand larceny…

Press-Enterprise Criminal proceedings against Hendrix Montecastro, the accused second-in-command of a $142 million mortgage and securities fraud centered in southwest Riverside County, have been suspended…

Mortgage News Daily The Washington Post reports that the lawsuit was filed by two mortgage brokers in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in 2006, but has remained under federal seal…

A Long Island real estate developer previously jailed for laundering bribes to a California congressman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for a Queens and Brooklyn-based mortgage fraud conspiracy that…

WOUBA Dublin man pleaded guilty in US District Court to a mortgage fraud scheme in Portsmouth totaling more than $1.2 million. Andrew Hill, 34, admitted to buying five properties and selling four of them to…

Wall Street Journal Investigators received a tip in August that Mr. Hand wanted to kill one of his 26 co-defendants in the mortgage fraud case in which he had been convicted last year and sentenced…

Thomson Reuters News & Insight Six charged in $25 mln New York mortgage-fraud bustThomson Reuters News & InsightNEW YORK, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Lawyers, loan officers and a real-estate agent were among six i

Frank Corallo, 38, is currently serving a four-year prison sentence in Philadelphia for his role in an earlier mortgage fraud scheme involving run-down properties in Paterson. He faces up to 30 additional years

Kontogiannis, a US citizen born in Greece, pleaded guilty in October 2010 to conspiring to commit bank and wire fraud. He faced up to 30 years in prison on that charge. During the sentencing hearing in Brooklyn