The Blotter

The former owner of a title agency in Avoca, Pa., was sentenced to time in prison for multiple counts of mail fraud. Read on for more details.

A Burlington County, N.J., man was sentenced to time in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that caused $2.7 million in losses. Read on for more details.

A Maryland attorney was sentenced to time in prison for conspiring in a long-running fraud scheme that targeted distressed homeowners throughout Connecticut. Bradford Barneys was an attorney licensed to practice in Connecticut and has an office in Bridgeport. Read on for more details.

A former Realtor from Sisters, Ore., pled guilty and was convicted in Deschutes County Circuit Court of the felony crime of forgery. Read on for more details.

A federal jury convicted a Hyattsville, Md., woman on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and five counts of mail fraud arising from a scheme to defraud victims through a foreclosure rescue fraud scam.

The latest First American Loan Application Defect Index showed that the frequency of defects, fraudulence and misrepresentation increased from a year ago and is higher than levels seen since 2015. Read on for more details.

A former Alabama bank president was sentenced to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.4 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, four counts of false statements to a federally insured financial institution, bank fraud, and mail fraud affecting a financial institution. Read on for more details.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, joined by New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo, announced that a 40-year old paralegal formerly employed at a Jackson Heights, N.Y. law firm has been charged with stealing $80,000, and attempting to steal an additional $44,000, by claiming that he could help one of the firm’s clients and another homeowner in distress and in danger of foreclosure with loan modifications on their mortgages. Read on for more details.

The former owner of Mimbres Valley Escrow Services has been sentenced for embezzling over $800,000 from 12 Luna County residents. The sentencing follows an investigation by the Tax Fraud Investigations Division of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department and cooperation from the Financial Institutions Division of the Regulation and Licensing Department.

The alleged mastermind of a foreclosure-avoidance scam that targeted distressed homeowners has been arrested on federal charges that he orchestrated a bankruptcy fraud scheme that brought in more than $7 million from victims. Read on for more details.