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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. An illegal property flipping scheme involves fraudulent appraisals and loan documents for a straw buyer who never intends to pay off the loan. These investors will forgo jumping through the legal loopholes to help distressed The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to ban predatory lending policies. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to put an end to prepayment penalties for home mortgages and to set up a $2 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
    The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. An illegal property flipping scheme involves fraudulent appraisals and loan documents for a straw buyer who never intends to pay off the loan. These investors will forgo jumping through the legal loopholes to help distressed The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    READ MORE
  • As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
    Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to ban predatory lending policies. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to put an end to prepayment penalties for home mortgages and to set up a $2 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    READ MORE