Rebecca Tharpe, Mortgage Scammer, Ordered To Lecture About The Perils Of Criminal Schemes
NEW YORK — A Long Island woman convicted of acting as a "straw buyer" in a mortgage fraud scam has been ordered to give lectures on the perils o...
NEW YORK — A Long Island woman convicted of acting as a "straw buyer" in a mortgage fraud scam has been ordered to give lectures on the perils o...
Pat Choate | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
Nothing can better send a message to the world that the United States is serious about restoring the integrity of its money industry than by banning from it the prominent people who deceived the nation and the world.
nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
Frustrated by the banks' inability or unwillingness to stop an avalanche of foreclosures, the states are considering lawsuits over the creation and ma...
Reuters | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Falling housing prices are driving up reports of mortgage fraud, with the FBI saying Tuesday that reported losses are up 83 percent...
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
Viewing Wagner's opera as a non-musician and member of the audience, it speaks to me about the leitmotif of avarice and Bernard Madoff.
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Howard Goodman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
MIAMI -- The sun-seared condominiums along Brickell Avenue stand tall and shiny, but these days they're pockmarked with vacant units, one after the ot...
United Press International | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business
U.S. fraud investigators say they're finding new schemes to improve bad credit histories so lenders will approve mortgages or lines of credit. In one...
American News Project | Lagan Sebert and Mike Fritz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
Criminal fraud may be the most under-reported aspect of our current financial crisis. In this "Road to Ruin" report, former subprime lenders from Amer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Capitalizing on the collapse of the housing market, a Fair Oaks, California company claimed to provide loan modification services while siphoning mone...
Chicago Tribune | Mike Dorning | Posted 05.07.2009 | Chicago
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan announced this morning at a news conference in Washington that she has filed lawsuits against two Chicago-area compan...
New York Law Journal | Vesselin MitevNew York Law JournalMarch 30, 2009 | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
Now that a lawyer has been arrested in connection with a bizarre real estate fraud that allegedly recruited straw buyers at a dominatrix club, he has ...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A mortgage industry group says there were a record number of mortgage fraud incidents last year, and Rhode Island made its first ap...
Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Below is some information on Matthew Tannin, one of the two former Bear Stearns executives indicted today in the FBI's "Operation Malicious Mortgage."...
Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Below is information on Ralph Cioffi, the former Bear Stearns manager, who was arrested on Thursday and charged with securities fraud and various cha...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Two former Bear Stearns managers have been arrested, federal authorities said Thursday, becoming the first executives to face criminal charges in the ...
AP | Alan Zibel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Florida led the nation in mortgage fraud in 2007, a dubious distinction it's had two years running. The competition to be first in fraud is getting s...
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York