The “Magic Man” Hector L. Rivera, age 53 from Ocala, Florida was sentenced on to eight years in prison for this orchestration of mortgage fraud against the now defunct Taylor, Bean and Whitaker. Mr. Rivera was arrested back in December of 2008 on charges of racketeering, identity theft and grand...

Agustin Ramirez, age 60 and his daughter Guadalupe Ramirez, age 31 are wanted for arrest in California on a million dollar warrant. The pair is accused of conspiring to obtain over four million dollars in mortgage loans and obtaining kickbacks from those fraudulent mortgage loans. A Kern County Superior...

Thomas John Hunter, age 30 pleaded guilty on March 3rd to mortgage fraud for his part in a mortgage scheme that used inflated income and inflated appraisals on properties that were claimed to be owner occupied. Court documents reveal that the scheme ran between 2005 and 2007. The conspirators used straw...

Mortgage fraud is no stranger to the heart land. Conspirators in the mortgage business have not confined their misdeeds to the west and east. News coming from the heartland shows that mortgage fraud is everywhere and may be right next door to your neighboring farm. Thomas John Hunter, age 30 and Co-Owner...

Last year eight Latino residents in Greenley, Colorado filed civil lawsuits against JS Real Estate and five of its staff members. JS Real Estate was owned by Mark Strodtman and Dean Jurl. The lawsuits that were filed against the company contend that the company targeted Latino homebuyers and scammed...

United Aerospace Workers Local 1069 was hit by fraud by it’s the President. Anthony Forte was the former President of the labor union and was the Executive Vice President for Boeing Helicopters Credit Union.  Mr. Forte’s duel role is proof that such a combination of duties is a recipe for disaster. The...

John A. Bui, age 46 from San Jose was indicted on August 21 of 2009 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, destroying records in a federal investigation and witness tampering by United States District Court Judge, Susan Ilston in San Francisco. Mr. Bui was sentence on March 5th of this year to forty one...

The largest and oldest Bank in Habersham County, Georgia has been accused making dicey and often questionable business decisions before the bank ultimately failed in January according to a lawsuit. Community Bank and Trust the bank in question responded through its lawyers in a statement which read as...

Frederick Earle Deen was sentenced in Minnesota to charges of mortgage fraud and received a reduced sentence of twenty four months for his role in the twenty million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Mr. Deen however is facing charges in Pierce County, Wisconsin. Mr. Deen received his reduced sentence based...