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Twenty-Eight Charged in Coordinated Mortgage Fraud Takedown in New Jersey
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:22:30 -0500

Twenty-eight individuals were charged in Newark, New Jersey with participating in various mortgage fraud scams that collectively sought to defraud lenders out of more than $5.5 million and involved more than 17 New Jersey properties.

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Mortgage Lending Exec Indicted in $1.9 Billion Scheme That Led to Failure of Bank
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:27:21 -0500

Lee Bentley Farkas, the former chairman of a private mortgage lending company, Taylor, Bean and Whitaker (TBW), was arrested and charged in a 16-count indictment for his alleged role in a more than $1.9 billion fraud scheme that contributed to the failures of Colonial Bank, one of the 50 largest banks in the United States in 2009, and TBW, one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the United States in 2009.

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New Jersey Woman Charged in $45 Million Real Estate Investment Ponzi Scheme
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:28:34 -0500

Antoinette Hodgson, of Montclair, New Jersey, was indicted in Manhattan federal court on charges that she orchestrated a $45 million real estate Ponzi scheme that fraudulently solicited investments from over 20 New York and New Jersey investors.

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Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Racially Motivated Church Arson
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:53:04 -0500

Benjamin Haskell, of Springfield, Massachusetts, pled guilty to two crimes related to the burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African-American church, in Springfield on the morning after President Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American president of the United States.

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