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Mortgage Lawsuits News | Mortgage Litigation Index
Mortgage industry lawsuit news and mortgage litigation coverage. Stories about legal settlements, judgments and mortgage class actions.
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Legal actions on mortgage-related embezzlement and accounting fraud.
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Jaime Lee Lawler, a/k/a Paige Kinney |
United States |
United States District Court District of Arizona |
$40,000,000 |
After her 2007 termination from Countrywide Home Loans, Lawler was hired by PRMI to work in their Phoenix branch. The DOJ alleges that while working there, she managed to fraudulently bill the company for $123,000 in mortgage leads. Lawler is also accused participating in a nearly $40 million mortgage fraud scheme. |
United States v. Jaime Lee Lawler, et al. |
CR-10-00796-PHX-NVW; CR-11-00491-PHX-NVW |
06/15/10 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal061711.asp |
Angelena Pena |
n/a |
n/a |
$250,000 |
Angelena Pena, a former branch manager at Nickeloid Employees Credit Union, pled guilty to one count of financial institution fraud. Pena admitted that although she was approved in 2009 for an $86,900 home-equity loan from her employer, she altered documents and inflated the HEL to $250,000 to support a gambling problem. |
n/a |
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www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal041211.asp |
Adrian Carroll |
United States |
United States District Court District of South Carolina |
$1,000 |
Carroll is charged with embezzling over $1,000 from her former employer, Carolina First Bank, between September 2008 and May 2009. |
United States v. Adrian Carroll |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal061711.asp |
Michael Ho Kim |
n/a |
n/a |
$1,000,000 |
Michael Ho Kim is accused of stealing more than $1 million from borrowers who whose loans were serviced by his former employer, Bank of America. Kim was also sued by Robin and Frances Kaneshiro over a soured real estate deal. |
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www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal061711.asp |
Julie Phillips |
United States |
United States District Court for the District of Vermont |
$100,000 |
Julie Phillips, a district manager who oversaw operations at six CitiFinancial branch offices in northern Vermont, pled not guilty in federal court to a bank fraud charge claiming she embezzled an estimated $100,000 from the institution between April 2009 and June 2010. |
U.S. v. Phillips |
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www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationCriminal041211.asp |
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Corporate Mortgage News M e r g e r s, a c q u i s i t i o n s and private and public offerings. Other corporate activity including executive appointments, bankruptcies name changes.
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Repurchase News
Coverage of repurchase demands, expense and and litigation.
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