The borrower sent bogus documents to a settlement company claiming a $111K lien was satisfied to complete a sale.

Eleven other defendants participated in the elaborate scam, which led to approval of unqualified buyers and numerous defaults of FHA-backed mortgages.

The settlement is a reminder that officials who oversee the loan officer licensing system do actively police the fulfillment of professional requirements by loan officers.

The crime highlights the importance of ensuring the integrity of documentation used by lenders to verify loan information at a time when defect risk is rising.

Error findings related to income and employment reached a high point since Aces Quality Management started its report in 2016.

The federal sentencing of the onetime president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, Ron McCord, follows a guilty plea and admissions related to improprieties in warehouse lending and servicing arrangements.

Application for loans to buy a home are a quarter more likely to contain misrepresentations than other loans in the market, CoreLogic said.

The various bank and wire fraud charges in a federal indictment include conspiracy to defraud Quicken Loans (now Rocket Mortgage) for $1.3 million.

Because there are currently no obligations on the sector to file suspicious activity reports — and no penalties associated with not reporting — there is no real incentive to report, writes the vice president of SmartSearch.

The builder was found guilty of stealing over $1 million from home buyers, lenders, businesses and a family member’s special needs trust between 2016 and 2020.

From 2016 to 2019, the Long Island man stole from Home Point Financial, LoanDepot and United Wholesale Mortgage, and faces 30 years in prison.

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Increased purchase lending and added pressure from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s new loan limits should drive the likelihood of borrower misrepresentation.

The cloud IT provider for settlement services companies has no timeline on when services will be restored following its shutdown Friday.

The defendant faces seven criminal counts — ranging from stolen property to falsifying business records — for two Harlem brownstones he paid just $20 for in 2012, according to tax filings.

Errors created in the loan manufacturing process were partly responsible for the increase in 2020, according to an analysis by Aces Quality Management.

The scheme's victims included an elderly woman and a local title agency that lost $230,000 in the fraudulent property transfer.

Scams in which a real person’s information is used to create fictitious businesses or individuals have led to $6 billion in credit losses. The Federal Reserve has developed a standard definition for synthetic identity fraud so lenders can distinguish it from traditional identity theft.

The individuals allegedly defrauded Freddie Mac and CBRE Capital Markets by misrepresenting information used to refinance a small-balance loan.

Less than two years after shutting down its biggest business amid fraud allegations, the Michigan company has sold branches, settled a shareholder lawsuit and returned to profitability under turnaround specialist Thomas O’Brien.