Pa Mortgage Manager Pleads Guilty
The manager of an Allentown, Pa., mortgage company who obtained fraudulent loans worth $1.5 million has pleaded guilty in federal court.
Joel Tillett, 36, of Whitehall Township admitted to conspiracy and forging loan documents to ensure clients' mortgage applications would be approved. According to an indictment released earlier this month, Tillett and other employees of Madison Funding falsified information about their clients' income and employment.
In many cases, the borrowers could not keep up with payments and defaulted, leaving taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of thousands in federally insured loans, according to court documents.
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PHILADELPHIA – Joel Tillett, 36, of Whitehall, PA, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in connection with a mortgage fraud conspiracy. Tillett, the former general manager of Madison Funding, Inc., a now-defunct Allentown mortgage loan origination company, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to forging or counterfeiting loan documents. The fraud conspiracy caused mortgage lending businesses to issue millions of dollars' worth of loans that were based on false information.
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