Sentences with phrase «operated illegal kickback»

Sherman Oaks lender Prospect Mortgage will pay the federal government $ 3.5 million to settle charges that it operated illegal kickback schemes with real estate brokers to gain business.

Not exact matches

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

For example, in 2007 First American Title Insurance Company was fined $ 500,000 in Minnesota for operating what the Minnesota Department of Commerce said were «sham title agencies that provided illegal referral kickbacks to local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, developers and other industry players» (click here for the Star Tribune article — article has been removed by Star Tribune).