Sentences with phrase «mortgage fraud scheme»

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a reformer and gubernatorial hopeful, lived with an ex-con who pleaded guilty in a multimillion - dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving an S&M club and dominatrixes.

Some recent examples of mortgage fraud schemes include:

There are more than a half - dozen mortgage fraud schemes that you should look out for, the FBI says.

A former NFL player was sentenced Friday for his role in a South Florida - based $ 7 million mortgage fraud scheme targeting distressed homeowners nationwide, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

The various mortgage fraud schemes involved cases of inflated home values on mortgage applications, loan applications that contained false information, funds illegally obtained through straw buyers, as well as arson, authorities say.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has announced charges against 14 defendants in a $ 58 million mortgage fraud scheme involving Long Island - based mortgage broker First...

Authorities charged 27 South Florida residents in a series of mortgage fraud schemes that involved $ 30 million in bad loans.

Congressman Meeks received a fugazzy «loan» of $ 40,000 from Edul Ahmad, who was subsequently arrested in 2011 for participating in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.

Ahmad pleaded guilty in federal court in October to a mortgage fraud scheme and has been the focus of a loan scandal involving Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks.

In March 2009, Ellner was indicted along with former Suffolk County legislator George Guldi, lawyer Dustin Dente, Donald MacPherson and his wife, Carrie Coakley, on charges of running an $ 82 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of Hamptons properties.

Self - styled reformer and gubernatorial hopeful Steve Levy once lived with an ex-con who copped a guilty plea in a mortgage fraud scheme involving dominatrixes and a SoHo S&M club.

Landlord Mark Benun was sentenced Friday in Manhattan Federal Court to 51 months in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme involving the sale of a $ 5.9 million commercial property at 67 - 79 East 161st Street near Yankee Stadium in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, according to federal prosecutors.

Guldi, a lawyer, is defending himself in the case, which is the first of two cases arising out the district attorney's investigation into an $ 82 - million mortgage fraud scheme.

In U.S. v. Esso (via WSJ Law Blog and the New York Law Journal), a case alleging a mortgage fraud scheme, jury deliberations began on Aug. 25, 2010, at about 3:20 p.m..

Amissah - Ocran blames one of his real estate employees, Claire Graham, for tricking him into involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme.

The Board also accuse Moncher of hiding from investors the fact he was sentenced to 57 months in prison in 2010 by a federal court in Florida for a mortgage fraud scheme and committing mail and wire fraud.

Taylor also points out that an appraiser usually has to be involved to make a mortgage fraud scheme work.

If you're aware of a mortgage fraud scheme in your market, you can contact your local FBI office and ask to speak with the white - collar crime unit.

The other participants in the mortgage fraud scheme were Courtenay Stocker («Mortgage Broker») of NovaStar Home Mortgage, Inc. («NovaStar») and Lisa Phillips («Apprentice»).

A federal appeals court has considered whether a participant in a mortgage fraud scheme could recover from an appraiser for damages suffered when he also became a victim of the scheme.

In fact, just last week twenty people in South Florida, including licensed real estate agents and mortgage brokers, were charged in a $ 40 million bank and mortgage fraud scheme.

September 2013 — Arizona — Conspirators committed a mortgage fraud scheme to purchase properties using companies with which they were associated, and they then sold the properties to straw buyers.

A former Toronto - area real estate salesperson was sentenced to 15 months in jail recently for his part in a mortgage fraud scheme.

A chief executive of what once was the largest privately held mortgage lending company in the country was sentenced to prison for his part in a $ 3 billion mortgage fraud scheme.