St. Louis Feds Pinch Local Woman For Allegedly Running Loan Modification Foreclosure Rescue Ripoff Targeting Hawaiian Homeowners

In St. Louis, Missouri, KMOX NewsRadio 1120 AM reports:

• The United States Attorney’s Office announced [] that Marien Brown allegedly falsely represented that she operated a “mortgage rescue” or “foreclosure rescue” service. According to the indictment, Marien Brown, a/k/a Marien White, owned and operated both 1st Financial Resource, LLC, (First Financial) and 1st Federal Resource, LLC, (First Federal). [...] She registered the business as 1939 Wentzville Parkway, Suite 178,Wentzville, Missouri, which is actually a UPS store which provides commercial mailbox services. She actually allegedly conducted the business from her residence on Ivy Brook Court in Wentzville.



• The indictment alleges that she researched and identified groups of homeowners in the state of Hawaii that were one or more mortgage payments behind, or were in imminent risk of home foreclosure then targeted that group of vulnerable home owners, and sent out a large number of unsolicited mailings to prospective clients representing that she operated a “mortgage rescue” or foreclosure rescue” service.



• More than eighty clients responded to her mailings and wired funds to First Financial and to First Federal. Marien Brown converted these funds to her own use. None of the client funds were ever sent to lenders.

For more, see Wentzville Woman Indicted For Credit Repair Scam.