Saturday, December 17, 2011

Head Of Long Island Straw Buyer Racket Gets 4-12 Years; Scam Involved Use Of Forged Deeds, Unwitting Homeowners Victimized By Identity Theft

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In Nassau County, New York, the Long Island Press reports: A Westbury man has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for leading a $2...

Denver Cops Pinch One, Look For Another In Title-Snatching Scam Targeting Vacant Homes In Foreclosure, Victimizing Unsuspecting Buyers, Renters

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In Denver, Colorado, KMGH-TV Channel 7 reports: A man accused of selling and renting homes he didn’t own was formally charged Monday. Alfon...

Unwitting Would-Be Tenants Continue Falling For Foreclosure Rent Scams

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In Rockwall County, Texas, WFAA-TV Channel 8 reports: From the stockings to the Christmas tree, Kimberly Agee and her family planned to cel...

Court Boots Bulk Of Cleveland's Public Nuisance Suit Attempting To Hold Banksters Responsible For Peddling Subprime Loans

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In Cleveland, Ohio, The Plain Dealer reports: A Cuyahoga County judge has dismissed most of a 2008 public nuisance lawsuit Cleveland offici...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Suit: "Another Tale Of Bank Of America Cheating Its Customers" As Bankster Is Accused Of Putting Borrower Into Default w/ Unauthorized Escrow Account

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In San Diego, California, Courthouse News Service reports: Bank of America found a new way to illegally extract money from customers, accor...
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Despite Having Valid Loan Mod In Place, Homeowner Nearly Loses Home To BofA Foreclosure; Bankster Halts Sale After Media Steps In, Shines Spotlight

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In Rio Grande Valley, Texas, KRGV-TV Channel 5 reports: A national bank admits its error almost cost a Valley family its home. The home loa...

Lawsuit: BofA Continues Harrassing Elderly Central Florida Couple After Foreclosing Over Payment Made Too Early

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In New Port Richey, Florida, the St. Petersburg Times reports: For the Bullingtons, dealing with Bank of America is like something out of G...

BofA Continues Attacks On Hapless Homeowners; Refuses To Honor Earlier-Granted Loan Modification To Widow After Hubby's Recent Death

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In Phoenix, Arizona, KPHO-TV Channel 5 reports: June Geffre lost her husband Tom to pancreatic cancer in November 2009. Months before he di...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Imprisoned Bay State Con Man Answers New Fraud Charges Of Taking Property Owners' Cash In Real Estate Deals & Allowing Mortgages To Go Into Default

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In Fall River, Massachusetts, The Herald News reports: Joseph Pereira made another appearance in court Tuesday, doing what must be familiar...

California AG Bags Pair, Seeks Extradition On Another As Criminal Prosecutions Of Alleged Loan Modification Rackets Continue Picking Up Steam

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From the Office of the California Attorney General : Attorney General Kamala D. Harris [] announced the arrests of two Southern California m...

Sacramento Feds Indict Five In Upfront Fee, Fractional Interest Deed Transfer Foreclosure Rescue Racket Employing Abuse Of Bankruptcy Courts

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From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Sacramento, California): United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that five persons had ...

HAMP Paperwork-Processing Scams Pick Up Speed As Bogus 'Experts' Come Out Of The Woodwork To Grab Cash From Unwitting Homeowners

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The New York Post reports: Once again, mortgage servicers are hitting ordinary New York homeowners where it hurts. The latest evidence is w...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

POA-Holding Woman Said To Have Known Or Wilfully Closed Eyes To Dementia-Suffering Senior's Capacity In Misusing Loot From $2.25M Sale Of Property

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In Brisbane, Australia, The Courier Mail reports: A LOGAN City Council councillor has admitted she knew a dementia patient did not have the...

Boston Feds: Closing Attorney Snatched $3M+ In Real Estate Escrow Cash, Failing To Pay Off Existing Mortgages

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From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Boston, Massachusetts): A Fairhaven attorney with an office in Taunton was charged [] in federal cour...

Feds Grab Fugitive After Int'l Manhunt; Suspect Accused Of Abusing POA By Putting Disabled Man's Home, Cash Into Her Name After Victim Suffered Stroke

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In Upper Gwynedd Pennsylvania, Montgomery News reports: It was Thanksgiving dinner behind bars for an Upper Gwynedd woman who allegedly sto...

Nephew Returns To Great Britain To Face Sentencing After Abusing POA To Rip Off 93-Year Old, Dementia-Suffering Aunt Out Of Home, Cash

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In Scarborough, United Kingdom, the Scarborough Evening News reports: A 93-YEAR-OLD Scarborough woman was left almost destitute and reliant...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Florida Supremes Send Shivers Thru Bankster Community; Kibosh Sneaky Effort To Buy Out Of Robosigning Litigation By Settling Case With Homeowner

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In Tallahassee, Florida, Sunshine Slate reports: In a split ruling likely to send shivers through the mortgage banking community , the Flor...

Foreclosure Rescue Scammer Convicted On State Charges Now Chased By Feds For Running Same Racket While Being Prosecuted In Earlier Case

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In Northern California, The Modesto Bee reports: Facing foreclosure, a Turlock homeowner two weeks ago signed over part interest in his pro...

Feds Indict Trio In Alleged South Florida Sale Leaseback Equity Stripping Racket

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From the U.S. Department of Justice : Lisa Wright, 46, and Cathy Saffer, 52, of Pompano Beach, Fla., were charged [] with a conspiracy to d...

Elderly Widow Tricked Into Signing Over Deed To Home Dies As Legal Battle To Recover Title, Possession Of Premises Remains Unresolved

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In New Port Richey, Florida, the St. Petersburg Times reports: On the last day Eloise Mudway was alive, she still worried about being mistr...

Upstate NY Sale Leaseback Peddler Gets 4 To 12 For Grand Larceny Conviction In Equity Stripping Ripoff Of Cash-Poor, Hi-Equity Homeowners In F'closure

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In Albany, New York, the Albany Times Union reports: Five former employees of a Colonie firm that conned property owners, banks and lender...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Recently-Released Transcripts Of Grand Jury Hearing Sheds Light In Nevada Robosigning Probe

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In Las Vegas, Nevada, KSNV-TV MyNews Channel 3 reports: The massive robo-signing scandal that throws into question tens of thousands of Las...

Housing/Civil Rights Lawsuit: Denial Of 'Affordable Housing' Condo Building Application Due To Town's 'No Blacks' Policy

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In Darien, Connecticut, The New York Times reports: DARIEN’S attitudes toward affordable housing are once again under scrutiny, this time i...

California, Nevada AGs To Combine Efforts Into Foreclosure Document Robosigning Scandal

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The Las Vegas Review Journal reports: Nevada and California, states with the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, will team up to inves...

New Jersey Foreclosures Slow To A Crawl While Lenders Wait For Ruling In Court Case Now Being Considered By State Supremes

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In Newark, New Jersey, the Star Ledger reports: In the nearly five months since the state Supreme Court effectively allowed six of the coun...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Maine Supremes Side w/ Bankster In High Profile Robosigning Case; OKs Lower Court Ruling Finding No Contempt When Lender Filed Faulty Paperwork

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In Portland, Maine, The Portland Press Herald reports: By a 5-1 decision released this morning, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a l...

CBS News' 60 Minutes Takes Look Into Lack Of Bankster Prosecutions In Interviews With Two Whistleblowers

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CBS News' 60 Minutes reports: Two whistleblowers offer a rare window into the root causes of the subprime mortgage meltdown. Eileen Fos...

Nevada AG Charges Three More Notaries In Massive Criminal Robosigning Prosecution

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In Las Vegas, Nevada, The Associated Press reports: Three more Nevada notaries are accused of falsely attesting to legal signatures on fore...

The Snooze Is Over For Tarrant County Officials As Adverse Possession Home-Snatching Scams Clearly Appear On Their Radar

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In Tarrant County, Texas, the Star Telegram reports: While county officials were asleep at the wheel, Tarrant County became a magnet this ...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Would-Be Tenant Gets Taken For $1,200 Deposit As Rent Scams Targeting Unwitting Victims Continue

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In Portsmouth, Virginia, WVEC-TV Channel 13 reports: [Paula] Jones was ripped off in a rental house scheme. She responded to a "for r...

BofA At Center Of Another Public Nuisance; Burned Out, Dilapidated Pre-F'closure Brownstone Sinks Quality Of Life On One Harlem Block

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In New York City, WNBC-TV Channel 4 reports: Neighbors who live on one Harlem block are growing angrier each day they are forced to look at...

Fire, Vandalism To Attached Neighboring Property In Foreclosure Destroys Dreams For Young NJ Family

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In Trenton, New Jersey, The Times of Trenton reports: Remy Joseph says his American dream has been torn apart. Three years ago, he moved in...