Los Angeles Sees Most Suspicious Activity in First Half

The Los Angeles and Miami areas saw the most reported fraud for the first half of 2009, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's updated Suspicious Activity Report Activity Review. According to FinCen's updated SAR report, Los Angeles and Miami each saw 6,300 SAR subjects. Following these, the urban areas with the largest number of mortgage fraud SAR subjects were New York with 4,500, Chicago with 3,200 and the District of Columbia with 2,200. Ranked by total reported subjects, the top 10 states included California, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Virginia and New Jersey. From Jan. 1 to June 30, filers submitted 32,926 mortgage loan fraud SARs, less than a 1% increase over the 32,660 SARs filed in the same period in 2008.