News Index
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Entries by Category
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- Acquittals (4)
- Action by Mortgage Regulators (253)
- Action by State Bar (6)
- Advance Fee Fraud (15)
- Affinity Fraud (1)
- Alabama (17)
- Alaska (5)
- Appraiser and/or False Appraisal(s) (161)
- Arizona (61)
- Arkansas (11)
- Arrests (141)
- Awards (1)
- Bankruptcy Fraud (32)
- Bid rigging (14)
- Bribery/Corruption (9)
- Broker (511)
- Builder Bail-Out (8)
- Builder fraud (9)
- California (332)
- Cease and Desist Orders (64)
- Charges dropped (1)
- Church related frauds (24)
- Civil Complaint alleging fraud (30)
- Closing Agent/Attorney (293)
- Colorado (62)
- Commercial Mortgage (36)
- Complaints (9)
- Congressional Hearings (1)
- Connecticut (54)
- Consent Orders (6)
- Construction Loans (26)
- Consumer Alert (9)
- Contractor Fraud (1)
- Convictions (679)
- Court Cases (180)
- Cox and Hauck case (3)
- CPA (27)
- Cuyahoga MFTF (11)
- Czech Republic (1)
- Daily Story Updates (57)
- Dayton Mortgage Fraud Task Force (1)
- Delaware (10)
- Dept of Veteran Affairs (11)
- Developer (22)
- Developer / Builder Bail Out (25)
- Disbarment (3)
- Disbarrment (3)
- District of Columbia (21)
- Do Not Call Violations (1)
- Down Payment (30)
- Drug Trafficking (27)
- Elder Explotation (51)
- Email Scams (3)
- Embezzlement (3)
- Equity Stripping/Skimming (35)
- Escrow Officer (1)
- Extortion (1)
- False Deeds/Liens (1)
- False Employment (3)
- False Income (2)
- False Instrument (1)
- False VOD (2)
- Fannie Mae Fraud Updates (4)
- Farmers Home Admin (1)
- FinCEN (5)
- Flipping (509)
- Florida (259)
- FLQC Meeting (1)
- Foreclosed Property Scams (4)
- Foreclosure avoidance scams (163)
- Forged Deed Transfers (Out from Under) (108)
- Forgery (36)
- Fraud Alerts (9)
- Fraud Prevention News (31)
- Fraud Statistics (1)
- FTC (7)
- Funds to close (4)
- General Fraud News and Info (140)
- Georgia (162)
- Governmental Hearings (6)
- Great Britain (1)
- Grow House (3)
- Guilty Plea (289)
- Harris County, TX (1)
- Hawaii (5)
- HELOC (10)
- HELOC's (3)
- HOA (Homeowners Association) (2)
- Home Equity Loans (8)
- Home Improvement Loans (8)
- HUD (144)
- HUD OND Program (4)
- Hurricaine Katrina Fraud (2)
- ID Theft (209)
- Idaho (11)
- Illinois (118)
- Indiana (74)
- Indictments (1108)
- Inflated Income (1)
- International (9)
- Investigations (42)
- Investment Schemes (222)
- Iowa (14)
- IRS Investigation (26)
- Kakvand (2)
- Kansas (35)
- Kentucky (20)
- Kick Back scheme (5)
- Kidnap (1)
- Kings County MFTF (3)
- Land Fraud (4)
- Law Enforcement News (27)
- Law Enforcement Officer (23)
- Lender Employee (1)
- Lenders (62)
- License Revocation (2)
- Loan Modification scams (39)
- Loan Modifications (15)
- Loan Officers (141)
- Loan Processor (2)
- Louisiana (20)
- Maine (9)
- Manufactured Housing (30)
- Maryland (95)
- Maryland MFTF (9)
- Massachusetts (67)
- Matthew Cox (1)
- Miami-Dade MFTF (2)
- Michigan (62)
- Minnesota (54)
- Mississippi (23)
- Missouri (104)
- Money Laundering (71)
- Montana (7)
- Mortgage Backed Securities (18)
- Mortgage Elimination schemes (1)
- Mortgage Fraud Discussion Group (1)
- Mortgage Fraud Surge (3)
- Mortgage Related Murder(s) (9)
- Mortgage Spam (2)
- NC Cell #1 (3)
- NC Cell #2 (7)
- NC Cell #3 (1)
- NC Cell #4 (4)
- NC Cell #5 (3)
- Nebraska (3)
- Nevada (33)
- New Hampshire (11)
- New Jersey (93)
- New Legislation (16)
- New Mexico (9)
- New York (243)
- Newspaper Articles (1)
- North Carolina (75)
- North Dakota (1)
- Notary (11)
- Ohio (147)
- Oklahoma (13)
- Op Malicious Mortgage (4)
- Operation Bad Deeds (9)
- Operation Cash Back (AZ) (2)
- Operation Madhouse (3)
- Operation Malicious Mortgage (25)
- Oregon (30)
- Organized Crime (2)
- Other Mortgage News (1)
- Overcharging and/or Theft of Mortgage Fees (54)
- Paralegal (1)
- Parrish Marketing (1)
- Pennsylvania (119)
- Phishing (1)
- Poconos (5)
- Ponzi scheme (7)
- Preparing False Documents (189)
- Presidential Pardons (1)
- Prieston Group (4)
- Public Corruption (22)
- Puerto Rico (3)
- Pump and Dump (2)
- Racketeering (5)
- Radio/TV Person (1)
- Real Estate Investor (30)
- Realtor (140)
- Rent to Own fraud (1)
- Reports (1)
- Research Papers (2)
- Restraining Orders (1)
- Reverse Mortgages (9)
- Rhode Island (13)
- SARs (2)
- Section 8 Housing Fraud (22)
- Securities & Exchange Commission (8)
- Settlement agreements (1)
- Short Sale Fraud (1)
- South Carolina (24)
- South Dakota (2)
- Stated Income fraud (1)
- Stipulation & Order (1)
- Straw Borrowers (182)
- Suffolk County MFTF (1)
- Tax Fraud (8)
- Tennessee (32)
- Terrorism (6)
- Texas (122)
- The Amico case (1)
- The Prieston Group (2)
- Theft of fees (1)
- Theft of Mortgage Proceeds (163)
- Time Shares (1)
- Title and Escrow (123)
- Treasury (1)
- Undercover Operation. (1)
- Unlicensed Appraiser (1)
- Unlicensed Mortgage Broker (42)
- Unlicensed Mortgage Lender (6)
- Unlicensed Realtor (1)
- Use of False ID (12)
- Utah (26)
- Vermont (8)
- Virginia (46)
- Wanted (8)
- Warehouse Line (3)
- Washington (WA) (41)
- Waxhouse Investigation (1)
- Wayne County DFTF (3)
- West Virginia (3)
- Western PA MFTF (4)
- Wisconsin (26)
- Witness Tampering/Obstruction of Justice (14)
- Zintron Case (2)
40 Most Recent Entries
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- Blaine Murphy indicted in Cuyahoga County, accused of mortgage fraud
- Superseding indictment issued in Utah mortgage fraud allegations
- Third defendent sentenced in Sexton Lofts (MN) condo fraud case.
- Dunkirk, NY woman sentenced in $300,000 loan modification fee fraud
- Oregon DCBS revokes manaufactured home builders license because of fraud
- Former Pastor sentenced after securing a loan against church land
- Florida mortgage broker sentenced in mortgage fraud scheme
- Former RI attorney pleads guilty to mortgage fraud scheme
- FL loan officer sentenced in $2.5 million Reverse Mortgage fraud scheme
- PA woman sentenced 100 months in fraud charges
- Kathleen Harps sentenced in foreclosure rescue fraud case
- Eric Omar Jones sentenced to 151 months in NC mortgage fraud case
- 4 indicted in Northern Ohio mortgage fraud allegations
- Two men arrested in San Bernadino real estate fraud allegations
- Chapin, SC developer sentenced in mortgage fraud case
- Indiana man pleads guilty to mortgage fraud kick-back scheme
- NJ mortgage broker pleads guilty in real estate related extortion scheme
- Lexington (SC) man sentenced in mortgage fraud case.
- New Haven, CT man sentenced in $4 million mortgage fraud
- Fairhaven (MA) attorney charged in mortgage fraud allegations
- Mytle Beach man pleads guilty in Condo fraud case
- Fulton County man charged in real estate kickback fraud allegations
- Sacramento man pleads no contest in loan modification fraud case
- Four indicted in AZ flipping/straw borrower scheme allegations
- Russian national convicted of ID Theft in connection with $260,000 mortgage
- New York woman convicted in HELOC fraud case
- Updated - Leader of alleged $200 million NJ investment fraud scheme is indicted
- WV developer and loan officer sentenced in mortgage fraud case
- Owner of Montana title company sentenced to 42 months imprisonment
- Two Utah men charged in federal mortgage fraud scheme in CA & WV
- Two Virginia men sentenced in mortgage fraud case
- DC man pleads guilty to mortgage fraud charges
- South Bend (IN) man sentenced in mortgage fraud case
- B of A improperly terminated Countrywide whistleblower who idenfied multple instances of lending fraud
- CA DRE revokes brokers license in straw buyer fraud allegations
- Ohio man indicted in Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) investment fraud allegations
- MN Commerce Department uncovers real estate kickback scheme
- Chula Vista (CA) man sentenced in real estate Ponzi scheme
- Former President of mortgage broker pleads guilty to mortgage fraud
- Los Angeles mortgage broker arrested in Samoa and deported to US
Entries by Month
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- February 2012 (8)
- January 2012 (5)
- December 2011 (8)
- September 2011 (41)
- August 2011 (9)
- July 2011 (1)
- June 2011 (1)
- May 2011 (26)
- April 2011 (2)
- March 2011 (6)
- February 2011 (19)
- January 2011 (1)
- November 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (1)
- April 2010 (2)
- February 2010 (31)
- January 2010 (65)
- December 2009 (39)
- November 2009 (32)
- October 2009 (65)
- September 2009 (61)
- August 2009 (51)
- July 2009 (83)
- June 2009 (75)
- May 2009 (60)
- April 2009 (76)
- March 2009 (79)
- February 2009 (58)
- January 2009 (55)
- December 2008 (67)
- November 2008 (12)
- October 2008 (53)
- September 2008 (62)
- August 2008 (27)
- July 2008 (7)
- June 2008 (44)
- May 2008 (13)
- April 2008 (10)
- March 2008 (3)
- January 2008 (1)
- December 2007 (8)
- November 2007 (41)
- October 2007 (30)
- September 2007 (43)
- August 2007 (17)
- July 2007 (31)
- June 2007 (39)
- May 2007 (27)
- April 2007 (8)
- March 2007 (31)
- February 2007 (44)
- January 2007 (55)
- December 2006 (45)
- November 2006 (67)
- October 2006 (33)
- September 2006 (35)
- August 2006 (14)
- July 2006 (35)
- June 2006 (52)
- May 2006 (37)
- April 2006 (52)
- March 2006 (29)
- February 2006 (9)
- January 2006 (19)
- December 2005 (13)
- November 2005 (29)
- October 2005 (28)
- September 2005 (58)
- August 2005 (70)
- July 2005 (62)
- June 2005 (67)
- May 2005 (35)
- April 2005 (41)
- March 2005 (66)
- February 2005 (54)
- January 2005 (50)
- December 2004 (61)
- November 2004 (55)
- October 2004 (49)
- September 2004 (28)
- August 2004 (23)
- July 2004 (15)
- June 2004 (27)
- May 2004 (27)
- April 2004 (23)
- March 2004 (23)
- February 2004 (8)
- January 2004 (12)
- December 2003 (17)
- November 2003 (16)
- October 2003 (8)
- September 2003 (9)
- August 2003 (8)
- July 2003 (13)
- June 2003 (14)
- May 2003 (15)
- April 2003 (22)
- March 2003 (8)
- February 2003 (13)
- January 2003 (12)
- December 2002 (10)
- November 2002 (5)
- October 2002 (12)
- September 2002 (14)
- August 2002 (7)
- July 2002 (4)
- June 2002 (5)
- May 2002 (12)
- April 2002 (8)
- March 2002 (3)
- February 2002 (8)
- January 2002 (6)
- December 2001 (3)
- November 2001 (4)
- October 2001 (2)
- September 2001 (3)
- August 2001 (3)
- July 2001 (2)
- June 2001 (4)
- April 2001 (1)
- March 2001 (5)
- February 2001 (1)
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- November 1999 (1)
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