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ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
A pair of elected officials said the foreclosure crisis is still alive and well in areas such as Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, where scammers, banks and even city programs are unfairly seizing property from longtime residents. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. said Monday that many owners have had […]
For the new resident, the foreclosed three-bedroom house on Beck Avenue – complete with a remodeled kitchen, hardwood floors and a pool – must have been a dream come true. “He had the door barricaded. Foreclosure News
Attorney General Josh Shapiro today alerted consumers to mortgage modification scams taking place across Pennsylvania and announced restitution for consumer victims of Michael Rabel, an attorney who scammed consumers in Western Pennsylvania During the first three months of 2018, the Office of Attorney General has already received 15 complaints from consumers about mortgage modification scams, […]
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A Tamarac, Fla., man scammed tens of thousands of dollars from three homeowners who were falling behind on their monthly payments during the mortgage crisis, investigators say. Michael Anthony Haynes is accused of persuading the homeowners to donate their homes to a “trust” he ran and then pay him rent. Foreclosure News
The phone call came as Raymond Murray neared the bottom of his luck. His wife had died, his career had been ended by injuries, and struggling to get by on his disability check, he had scraped together just enough to pay a lawyer to avoid imminent foreclosure on his modest Brooklyn home. Foreclosure News
In this Feb. 1, 2017, photo, Raymond Murray gets a visit from his lawyer, Robert Seewald, right, at his home in New York. Murray is the victim of deed theft, a foreclosure fraud where older people are mostly the target. Foreclosure News
” The phone call came as Raymond Murray neared the bottom of his luck. His wife had died, his career had been ended by injuries, and struggling to get by on his disability check, he had scraped together just enough to pay a lawyer to avoid imminent foreclosure on his modest Brooklyn home. Foreclosure News
His wife had died, his career had been ended by injuries, and struggling to get by on his disability check, he had scraped together just enough to pay a lawyer to avoid imminent foreclosure on his modest Brooklyn home. The man on the phone offered a godsend: The foreclosure could be averted, the legal fees […]