The Blotter

A man from Wisconsin and Florida was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a mortgage rescue scheme that defrauded more than 70 Wisconsin homeowners. Read on for more details.

A Brazilian national was arrested for his role in a long-running mortgage fraud scheme based in New Jersey. Read on for more details.

A Union County, N.J., man was arrested by federal agents on charges of mortgage fraud and scheming to defraud the Orange Public Library. Read on for more details.

A Long Island man was sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison for stealing a vacant brownstone worth more than $1 million in a deed fraud scheme targeting an 80-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant homeowner. Read on for more details.

A federal jury found Anthony T. Williams, 48, of Nashville, Tenn., guilty of 32 counts of wire and mail fraud. He marketed a fraudulent mortgage debt reduction scheme to distressed homeowners. Read on for more details.

Mortgage fraud risk has fallen to a new low, according to First American’s Loan Application Defect Index for January 2020. Read on for more details.

The owner of a mortgage debt elimination company was sentenced to time in prison in connection with a $38 million scheme. She was convicted in June 2019. Read on for more details.

A Sunset Park, N.Y., attorney was arraigned on an indictment charging him with several counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing approximately $280,000 in downpayments he received to hold in escrow from two clients he represented in the same of their homes. Read on for more details.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced a Las Vegas man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to serve 24 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud a California mortgage lender in connection with a Battle Creek, Mich., business.

A real estate developer was sentenced to prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme. Read on for more details.