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  • Phony Check Scam – Believer Beware

    WOKR 13 - The next day they were informed their bank account had been frozen and the check was a fraud. The Better Bureau Business also warns about mortgage rescue companies and phony checks. Pat Coakley of the BBB said, "What they are promising is to take care ...
    2007-10-03 05:29:00
  • Upper Marlboro woman sentenced to two years for bank fraud

    Gazette - Over a year and a half period, Rebecca Biglow, 35, issued more than $600,000 in company checks from two employers to pay off her mortgage and personal expenses. According to her guilty plea, while Biglow was employed as a loan funder for Pinnacle ...
    2007-10-03 07:09:00
  • Investors, DA to meet in loan fraud probe

    Union - On Sept. 21, local and state law enforcement agents seized documents from the mortgage company on Brunswick Road and are investigating allegations of real estate fraud. ooo To contact Staff Writer Laura Brown, e-mail laurab@the union.com or call 477 ...
    2007-10-02 11:52:00
  • It's not that the Riverbottoms in Provo isn't posh, it just isn't $4 ...

    Daily Herald - Mortgage fraud also catches the attention of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Salt Lake City. As a chosen home is run up in value, often what ends up happening is that misrepresentations take place to keep the price high. That includes misstated income ...
    2007-10-03 07:52:00
  • Businessman charged with defrauding investors

    Philadelphia Inquirer - Edward Ronald Schnable Jr., 47, was arrested yesterday and charged in a six-count mail- and wire-fraud indictment. Schnable ran a mortgage business and several other entities from 1995 through 2003. He promised investors annual returns of 10 percent ...
    2007-10-03 04:03:00
  • Detroit news briefs

    Detroit Free Press - A 34-year-old Dearborn man was sentenced in Detroit to 10 years in prison for leading a mortgage fraud scheme that obtained inflated appraisals on residential properties and created false applications in order to obtain millions of dollars in bank ...
    2007-10-03 05:57:00
  • No jail in bank fraud case

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (October 3, 2007) — A Greece man who went to prison for his role in a massive mortgage-fraud scheme was spared prison Tuesday on a new conviction for bank fraud. U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa ordered John Siciliano to spend six months in ...
    2007-10-03 01:32:00
  • Upper Marlboro woman gets 2 years for bank fraud (Baltimore Sun)

    She illegally reissued checks while working at settlement company, prosecutor says An Upper Marlboro woman was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
    2007-10-03 05:50:43
  • More muscle wanted behind anti-mortgage-fraud action (KGET 17 Bakersfield)

    By most accounts, Bakersfield isn’t going to shake off its housing boom hangover for at least another 18 months.
    2007-10-02 07:51:07
  • Man gets 10 years for mortgage fraud (Crain's Detroit Business)

    Safi Sobh, 34, of Dearborn, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan.
    2007-10-03 05:26:42
  • No jail in bank fraud case (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

    A Greece man who went to prison for his role in a massive mortgage-fraud scheme has been spared prison on a new conviction for bank fraud.
    2007-10-03 02:10:15
  • Mortgage service center opens in Scottsbluff

    Star-Herald - Aurora Loan Services' Head of Loan Administration Terry Gentry said that Aurora is one of the nation's leading mortgage lending companies and now is one of the largest employers in Scottsbluff. "Aurora takes great pride in being among the largest ...
    2007-10-03 05:29:00
  • Music Download Trial Begins in Minn.

    Baltimore Sun - Those are some of the questions her attorney has been raising in the nation's first trial of someone accused of illegally sharing music online. But Richard Gabriel, lead attorney for some of the nation's largest record companies, sought to pick ...
    2007-10-03 01:11:00
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    2007-10-03 04:53:00
  • Index forecasting near-term US home sales fell in August to low amid ...

    MSN UK News - ... Yun, senior economist at the real estate trade group, said August's problems were worst in expensive areas where borrowers have to take out "jumbo" home loans above $417,000 (euro294,387) that cannot be sold to government-sponsored mortgage companies ...
    2007-10-02 07:24:00