A bit about contruction and mortgages…
Lester W. Firstenberger, a Massachusetts attorney, appealed a judgment suspending him from the practice of law for six months and one day. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate court. Massachusetts Bar counsel filed a petition for discipline cha…
David Willan, Craig Conner, Daniel A. Mohler, Sandra Langer, Mandie Pugh, Nicole Pappas-Ford, Richard Borodkin, Brianna Fullerton and Daniel Ringer, all of Evergreen, Ohio, Amanda Lower, Angela Soukup and Gene Luce III, all of Carnation, Ohio, appraise…
We’ll be mostly away from Behind The Mortgage Headquarters over the next several days, so please allow young Wyatt (the only Christmas gift we need) to play you a tune in our absence. We don’t post much in the way of personal stuff around here, so we’re hoping that you forgive the indulgence of a proud father during the Holiday Week. Photos by Andy Cosgrove.
Frank Corallo, charged December 21, 2007 in a criminal information, pled guilty to conspiracy for his involvement in a wide-ranging mortgage fraud scheme that involved the Mahwah, New Jersey real estate mogul Michael Eliasof. As previously reported b…
Darryl G. Moore, 41, Solon, Ohio, Leon S. Heard, 72, Cleveland, Ohio and Steven I. Helfgott, 54, Cleveland, Ohio, were charged in eleven-count superceding indictment charging them with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and secur…
Homeowners’ Assistance Association, Lender’s Foreclosure Relief, Inc., and United Home Savers, LLP, were sued by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan based on allegations that these three companies falsely promised to help consumers save …
Homeowners’ Assistance Association, Lender’s Foreclosure Relief, Inc., and United Home Savers, LLP, were sued by Ohio Attorney General Lisa Madigan based on allegations that these three companies falsely promised to help consumers save thei…
Randall Mortgage Services Inc. and its owner and president, Robert Shepherd, was sued by Attorney General Marc Dann and the Ohio Department of Commerce for allegedly abandoning customers’ loan and personal financial information after the mortgage…
Robert W. Hulbert, Jr., 46, Jacksonville, Florida, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme. After his release from prison, Hulbert will be on supervised probation for four years. Hulbert entered…
The craziness of the mortgage fraud problem has now crossed the line from “can’t make it up” to surreal. From the WSJ: It didn’t take a rocket scientist to steal a fortune from mortgage lenders in recent years. That much is clear from the Atlanta scheme. It was perpetrated in large part by a 23-year-old college dropout named Gregory Jerome Wings Jr., aka G-Money. His accomplices included a young nightclub owner, along with the director of an underground documentary called “Crackheads Gone Wild,” Fraud Seen as Driver in Wave of Foreclosures [WSJ]