Former Social Security judge gets prison time for taking bribes from lawyer now on the lam
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As she was getting on in years and her resources dwindled, Virginia Rayford took out a special kind of mortgage in 2008 that she hoped would help her stay in her three-bedroom Washington rowhouse for the rest of her life. Rayford, 92, took advantage of a federally insured loan called a reverse mortgage that allows […]
How much would you pay to drive a cab? In New York City, in 2014, the price of a Taxi Medallion hit $ 1.3 million. With Uber and Lyft, Medallions are now running in the $ 200,000s to the $ 500,000s. Foreclosure News
The federally funded program in 18 states and the District of Columbia provides help to struggling homeowners through modification, mortgage payment assistance and transition assistance. The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, the state agency that administers the program, stopped accepting applications on June 30 at 5:01 pm. Foreclosure News
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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 […]
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