The preferential debt status of employees
means that in the insolvency, if there is any money at all left over after paying holders of fixed charges (such as
mortgage companies or
other secure creditors) and their preferential debt, employees are entitled to another slice of what they are owed.
That
means someone used a victim's information to generate fraudulent residence history, income documentation, and piles of
other paperwork that could be produced to the
mortgage company over a period of weeks or months, and then went to closing and signed the victim's name on a deed, a
mortgage, and about a hundred
other documents.