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.
Vafa Allan Khoshbin, 52, Los Angeles, California, state bar number 165486, an attorney accused of misappropriating $1.1 million from 10 clients, has agreed to be disbarred. The case was one of the largest misappropriation cases ever handled by the California Office of Chief Trial Counsel.
Howard R. Shmuckler, 68, Virginia Beach, Virginia, pled guilty to running a fraudulent mortgage rescue business that received substantial fees but actually modified clients’ mortgages in only a few cases.
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