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  • 10 most affordable home markets

    Birmingham Business Journal - Tesco's Fresh & Easy stores in trouble [Friday] S&P won't cut Southwest ratings over maintenance issues [Friday] California falls to No. 4 in mortgage fraud [Friday] Reports:
    2008-03-15 01:31:00
  • Trails of money lead to suspicion

    Union Leader - About 2 percent involved suspected mortgage fraud, and 1 percent alleged embezzlement. About 7 percent were classified "other." At money-services firms, SARs were most often filed on customers who frequently dealt in amounts under $3,000.
    2008-03-15 08:58:00
  • Teen defends wife's motives in sex case

    Atlanta Journal Constitution - Lisa dictated the whole thing to the author," said Grant, whose mother Jennifer Grant wrote the book while serving time for mortgage fraud. The publisher said a portion of the book's proceeds would go into a trust fund for Clark's three children from ...
    2008-03-14 05:24:00
  • Motor association leads anti-fraud shredding drive

    Edmonton Sun - The Alberta Motor Association teamed up with police yesterday to host a document-shredding day as part of Fraud Prevention ... But every person is affected and their bank account is truly affected - they may have bills that go unpaid, their mortgage may ...
    2008-03-16 02:27:00
  • Walsh: Statistics paint ugly postcard

    Salt Lake Tribune - Finally, there are rankings that show a dominant culture in denial: the fourth-highest rate of teenage girls testing positive for chlamydia, number five in the nation for mortgage fraud, the seventh-highest rate of suicide in the country and a one ...
    2008-03-16 04:43:00
  • N.Y. action to let the air out of inflated appraisals

    Chicago Tribune - Cuomo brokered an agreement that transcends state governments— and could touch almost every home-mortgage transaction nationwide. Late last year, Cuomo began an investigation of potential appraisal fraud in the portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie ...
    2008-03-15 11:50:00
  • Erie businessman gets prison term in mortgage scam

    Philadelphia Inquirer - ERIE, Pa. - An Erie businessman has been sentenced to more than six years in a federal prison for his role in a low-income mortgage scam. Sixty-year-old Robert Dodsworth pleaded guilty in November to fraud and conspiracy charges. Federal prosecutors ...
    2008-03-14 05:03:00
  • Mortgage Bankers Association articles from

    Sacramento Business Journal - Mortgage applications hit highest level in 2 years [WallSt.net] Losing grip [Buffalo News] Florida tops in mortgage fraud [Miami Herald] Home foreclosures set record as amount of equity hits low [Denver Post] Look Who's Buying Homes Now [Yahoo ...
    2008-03-14 01:35:00
  • Monmouth prosecutors accuse 5 of mortgage fraud

    Courier News - FREEHOLD (AP)--Five people are accused in Monmouth County of a mortgage scheme that prosecutors say cost lenders over $4 million dollars. A sixth person has pleaded guilty to related charges and has agreed to testify against the others
    2008-03-14 05:36:00
  • Overstating income helped sink mortgage industry

    Daily Breeze - For the first time, the industry is getting a real-time look at the scope of mortgage fraud, and these numbers are staggering," said a statement by Kevin Coop, president of Interthinx, which has about 1,400 clients nationwide, including 15 of the top ...
    2008-03-16 01:09:00
  • Milwaukee only ray of data light

    Chicago Tribune - If the nation's housing market is slow, mortgage fraud isn't. Last year, about $4 billion of fraudulent doings were identified, up from $1.6 billion in 2006, according to an index from MortgageDaily.com, an online trade journal.
    2008-03-16 03:25:00
  • FBI starts Nevada mortgage-fraud task force

    Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has started a mortgage-fraud task force in southern Nevada to combat what the agency said was a "significant crime problem" in the top U.S. state for investor-owned mortgage defaults. "Mortgage fraud has likely ...
    2008-03-14 10:44:00
  • Your Week (The Salt Lake Tribune)

    Story of the week         Crandall Canyon investigation     Warning signs went unheeded     Months before August's disaster, at least two engineers saw problems in Murray Energy Corp.
    2008-03-16 12:58:09
  • More News (Daily Breeze)

    Sorry, no items are currently available. It's become clear that financial shenanigans are partly to blame for bogging down the mortgage industry. The depth of the quagmire has been the great unknown.
    2008-03-16 01:34:42
  • E-mails requested from attorney general, secretary of state (Battle Creek Enquirer)

    LANSING — Every day, state workers get thousands of e-mails from citizens, co-workers, bosses and junk mailers. Most of that e-mail they receive — and send — probably will be deleted once the workers no longer need it.
    2008-03-16 01:40:35