A New Jersey-based real estate investor pleaded guilty for his role in a multi-year conspiracy to fraudulently obtain over $54.7 million in loans and to fraudulently acquire multifamily and commercial properties. Aron Puretz was an employee of Apex Equity Group, a...
A former Baltimore city prosecutor who was found guilty of mortgage fraud avoided a prison sentence. The Associated Press reported that former state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby’s was sentenced to 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service and three...
Two former employees of a mortgage lending company have been charged in connection with their roles in a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme. According to charges brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Christopher J. Gallo of Old Tappan,...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started a claims process for consumers victimized by a phony mortgage relief operation known as Lanier Law that collected upfront fees of thousands of dollars and promised consumers lower monthly payments but failed to deliver....
Two New York men were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford, Connecticut, for perpetrating a $50 million mortgage fraud scheme. According to the charges brought against them, Jacob Deutsch and Aron Deutsch worked at B H Property Management LLC...