Real Estate & Property Law

17 indicted in alleged mortgage-fraud scheme
From Mark Morris: A Kansas City federal grand jury indicted 17 people today in an alleged $12.6 million mortgage fraud scheme centered on Lee?s Summit and Raymore. According to the indictment, the conspirators engineered the sale and purchase of new...

"Straw buyer" indictment hits Southern District
An indictment unsealed Tuesday charges two dozen people, including a documented gang member, with racketeering offenses stemming from an extensive mortgage fraud scheme based in San Diego...

Former KB Home CEO Settles Backdating Charges
The SEC filed settled civil fraud charges against Bruce E. Karatz, the former chairman and CEO of Los Angeles homebuilder KB Home, Inc., for his participation in a multi-year scheme to backdate stock options to himself and other KB Home...

FBI gets firepower to fight mortgage fraud
Congress has passed legislation intended to double the number of FBI mortgage fraud task forces and to close legal loopholes that have prevented federal prosecutors from filing fraud and money laundering charges against many mortgage lenders...

FBI: U.S. Mortgage Fraud "Rampant" and "Escalating"
The FBI released their 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report today. (ht Bob_in_MA) Mortgage fraud trends in 2008 reflected the overall downturn in the US economy ... the mortgage loan industry reported a spike in foreclosures and defaults; and financial markets continued to contract, diminishing credit to financial institutions, businesses, and homeowners...

SEC Settles Accounting Fraud Charges Against Retail Pro and Former Officers
The SEC filed securities fraud charges against Retail Pro, Inc. (formerly known as Island Pacific, Inc.), and two former CEOs and a former CFO for their roles in an accounting fraud scheme designed to falsely inflate Island Pacific's revenues...

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