The Blotter

An escrow officer from Edinburg, Texas, pleaded guilty to her role in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved creating fraudulent HUD-1 documents for several transactions, leading to the loss to lending institutions of approximately $3.7 million. Read on for more details.

Interthinx, a provider of comprehensive risk mitigation solutions for the financial services industry, has released its quarterly interactive Mortgage Fraud Risk Report, covering data collected in the fourth quarter of 2013. This quarter’s findings show that loans associated with multi-unit properties have a much higher fraud risk than loans associated with other property types.

An Allen, Texas, man, who pleaded guilty in April 2013 to one count of a misprision of a felony stemming from his involvement in a loan fraud scheme, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Godbey. Read on for more details.

A father and son from Bakersfield, Calif., were sentenced to time in prison for charges stemming from a long-term mortgage fraud scheme that caused losses of approximately $30 million. Read on for more details.

A Memphis, Tenn., title agent was sentenced to time in prison following her guilty plea to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering as part of mortgage fraud scheme that utilized straw buyers. Read on for more details.

An Englewood, Colo., man was sentenced to 108 months in jail and ordered to pay $8.9 million in restitution to victims. Between 2006 and 2007, the defendant devised and participated in three similar but separate mortgage fraud schemes, including one that involved 26 townhomes. Read on for more details.

A Stamford, Conn., attorney pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud financial institutions through an extensive mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of properties in Fairfield County, Conn. Read on for more details.

A disbarred N.Y. attorney was indicted for his role in a foreclosure rescue fraud scheme that defrauded 10 families of $1.3 million in home equity. During the scheme, the attorney and his co-conspirators tricked the homeowners into transferring title to their property to straw buyers and paying large fees to the conspirators. Read on for more details.

A woman from Memphis, Tenn., was sentenced to time in prison after pleading guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering. The woman knowingly sent a package of fraudulent documents to a bank and transferred $11,000 to her company, Preferred Title and Escrow. Read on for more details.

A Kensington, Pa., attorney was sentenced to time in prison on her convictions of filing false tax returns, failing to file tax returns and mail fraud. She conducted a multi-faceted mortgage fraud scheme through several businesses she owned. Read on for more details.