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3:22PM

Title agent, mortgage broker and one other arrested in NJ fraud allegations

Ania Nowak, 43, Zbigniew Cichy, 41, both of Belvidere, New Jersey, and Kim Salvemini, 55, of Wallington, New Jersey were arrested this morning by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”). The defendants are charged by Complaint with conspiring to defraud various mortgage lenders of over $2.7 million by conducting at least five fraudulent real estate transactions involving two residential properties in New Jersey.

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9:04AM

Arrests in Midland, TX real estate fraud allegations.

Midland (TX) Police Department’s White Collar Division is in the final stages of an investigation involving several citizens who were defrauded by people who purchased residences from them under false pretences. Victims found out that the business was not making payments on mortgages as was their original agreement, placing them further into debt - a type of real estate fraud.

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5:03PM

Two indicted in Missouri mortgage fraud allegations

According to the indictment, between November 2005 and December 2008, Jeremy Beadle purchased properties and resold them at higher prices based on fraudulent and inflated appraisals to individuals who were qualified for mortgages based on false loan applications. Rebecca Domecillo employed family members at Premier Mortgage Funding and also used family members, including her mother and daughter, as straw parties in real estate transactions she arranged.

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11:12AM

Pittsburg (PA) couple plead guilty to mortgage fraud

Rand and Ellani Berger operated All Credit Finance, which was a mortgage broker company that assisted borrowers obtain financing collateralized by real estate. The couple participated in a conspiracy in which they and other members of the conspiracy submitted fraudulent loan applications on behalf of borrowers that overstated their financial condition, and a series of fraudulent documents that supported those misrepresentations.

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2:00PM

Trial and Case Updates

1:45PM

Mortgage broker and a developer charged in straw buyer scheme

Michael Ohayon and David Papera are accused of recruiting 13 straw buyers who used their good credit scores to obtain more than $19.6 million in fraudulent residential mortgage loans from Washington Mutual Bank, with no intention of making either down payments or mortgage payments on the properties. They allegedly told the straw buyers that an entity controlled by Ohayon and Papera would use the loan proceeds to make the down payments and mortgage payments.

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9:58PM

Two plead guilty in Oklahoma fraud case

Gaile Cates and Ayo Dineji Olaniyan admitted that they solicited and induced home buyers by promising to pay down payments, closing costs and provide cash back to the buyers after closing. In order to get the mortgage lenders to loan funds, the defendants conspired to submit false loan applications, falsely reported the existence and source of down payments and closing costs, and inflated the purchase prices of the homes.

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9:18PM

Illinois AG files suit against two reverse mortgage brokers

Madigan today filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County against Woodridge, Ill.-based Hartland Mortgage Centers, Inc. She also filed a suit in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County against Irvine, Calif.-based American Advisors Group, Inc., and its company president, Reza Jahangiri.In each of the lawsuits filed today, Madigan alleges that the defendants targeted seniors to take out Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs).

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