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…
Continue Reading...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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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Donna Sherman, 34, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, president and owner of her title company, has been found by a jury of a pattern of corrupt activity for fraudulently closing home loans. Her title company, Sherman Title Agency, Inc. was convicted of the same crimes.
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Joshua Brown, 31, New Hampshire, has been sentenced to four years in jail for leading a mortgage scheme that defrauded more than a dozen financial lending institutions and several homebuyers of more than $2 million in connection with the purchase of 26 multi-family properties in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
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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…
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Con artists who promise to help homeowners modify their mortgage loans for a fee but wind up ripping them off have caught the attention of Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and her Mortgage Fraud…
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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…
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