The Blotter

Owners of title agencies in Colorado were indicted recently by a state grand jury in Denver. The pair is accused of the theft of $733,000 of funds that should have been placed in trust for their policyholders. Read on for more details.

In its Loan Application Defect Index for June 2018, First American Financial Corp. found that shifting to accommodate millennial home buying preferences reduces the loan application risk and helped make the manufacture and underwriting of mortgage loans less risky. Read on for more details.

A Pennsylvania owner of mortgage and title companies was sentenced to time in prison and ordered to pay more than $12 million in restitution for defrauding lenders of almost $13 million. Read on for more details.

An attorney whose New Jersey law license is under administrative suspension was arraigned on a number of fraud and theft charges stemming from real estate closings. Read on for more details.

Former New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam Skelos were convicted by a jury on bribery, extortion and honest services fraud counts for using his influence to obtain bribes and extortion payments, including dealings in the real estate industry. Read on for more details.

The vice president and director of the Dallas County Community Action Committee Inc. was sentenced to time in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud numerous homeowners, banks and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Read on for more details.

A husband, wife and daughter who owned and managed Los Angeles -area foreclosure rescue companies were sentenced to time in prison for their roles in a foreclosure rescue scheme. Read on for more details.

A federal indictment was unsealed charging a couple from Moultrie, Ga., with conspiracy to commit bank fraud involving a condominium conversion of a former apartment complex. Read on for more details.

Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced that a Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to stealing $1.7 million from an escrow account. Read on for more details.

An attorney from Annandale, N.J., whose New Jersey license to practice law is under administrative suspension, was arraigned on a number of fraud and theft charges stemming from local real estate closings. Read on for more details.