Gary Dimattia, 62 and Lawrence Bateman, Jr., 36, both of Las Vegas, Nevada, were indicted on August 15, 2012, for their involvement in a mortgage lending fraud case operating under the name Financial Link Services involving numerous victims.
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Making All Homes Affordable, LLC (“MAHA”) and its owner Albert Figueroa, Phoenix, Arizona and La Paz Source, LLC, its owners, Maria Beltran and her husband, Francisco Ramos, Tucson, Arizona and their new operation La Placita Multi Services, LLC owned and operated by Beltran and an individual named Arturo Gomez Leon had lawsuits filed against them for selling mortgage modification services to distressed homeowners.
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Jesus Baca and Ramon Dy-Ragos, co-managers of “Save Your House” and Luis Baca, an employee of the company, were prosecuted for conspiring to knowingly and falsely promote the business as a foreclosure defense firm.
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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.
Statewide Financial Group, Inc., which did business as US Homeowners Assistance and Webeatallrates.com, Orange County, California, who ran a national loan modification scam, were ordered to pay more than $4 million in penalties and restitution, including $2 million to consumers who were falsely promised modifications of their mortgage loans.
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Charles Craig Brown, Chad Gettel, and C.C. Brown Law, LLC are the subjects of search warrants executed at three locations for allegedly engaging in unlicensed mortgage modification activities in Minnesota.
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Home Credit Law Center is again at the center of a warning to homeowners looking to save their homes by engaging loan modification companies rather than using state or government agency hotlines, which provide the service for free.
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Andrew Michael Phalen, 25, Mission Viejo, California, was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of formal probation for defrauding hundreds of victims in a real estate scam by offering home loan modification assistance to struggling homeowners across the country.
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Andrew Michael Phalen, 25, Mission Viejo, California, was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of formal probation for defrauding hundreds of victims in a real estate scam by offering home loan modification assistance to struggling homeowners across the country.
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A fraud alert has been issued to the Armed Services community to combat scams targeted at homeowners seeking to apply for mortgage assistance through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and other federal programs. A number of these scams are specifically targeting members of the Armed Services community.