Court records show that on May 26 4, 2009 Christine Calbert Gates was charged in an Information and entered a guilty plea in relation to her involvement in a North Carolina mortgage fraud case. She was involved in the onging mortgage fraud investigations by the FBI in NC which involve five “mortgage fraud cells”.

Gates has admitted that whilst working as a closing attorney on real estate transactions for Mortgage Fraud Cell No. 1, Mortgage Fraud Cell No. 2, Mortgage Fraud Cell No. 4 and Mortgage Fraud Cell No. 5.

No specific closings or properties are mentioned in the information.

On August 3, 2009 Gates was disbarred, click here for the NC Supreme Court Order.

The guilty plea is not available on PACER (locked) but the docket shows that on 9/16/2009 there was a waiver of indictment and an acceptance of the plea.