Maryland Feds Bag 2nd Guilty Plea In Alleged "Money Store" Foreclosure Rescue Scam

In Greenbelt, Maryland, The Washington Post reports:

• A Lanham man pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a scheme to defraud people who faced losing their homes because they were behind in their mortgage payments. Clifford McCall, 47, was the president of a financial services firm that prosecutors say aided in the fraud orchestrated by Metropolitan Money Store, a Maryland corporation that did business in the District, Maryland and Virginia. McCall, appearing yesterday in federal court in Greenbelt, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

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• McCall is one of nine people charged in the case and the second to plead guilty since the indictments were announced in June. [...] The unsealed portion of the plea documents does not indicate whether McCall is obligated to cooperate with investigators against the remaining defendants, including McCall's wife, Jennifer McCall, and a daughter, Chandra Jones. Both have pleaded not guilty, as have the other five defendants awaiting trial, including JoyJackson and Kurt Fordham, the husband and wife alleged to have masterminded the scheme.

For more, see Man Pleads Guilty To Fraud Charge in Foreclosure Scheme.

See also:

• Original Federal indictment - U.S. v. JoyJackson, et al.,
• USDOJ news release: President of Financial Services Firm Pleads Guilty In Metropolitan Money Store Mortgage Fraud Scheme (Fraudulently Obtained Almost $2.5 Million in Scheme to Take Title of Homes from Financially Distressed Homeowners and Secretly Use Home Equity for Personal Benefit).

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