Mortgage Fraud Task Force
The Associated Press reported Monday afternoon that Attorney Generals located in Washington state, Iowa, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Missouri and Ohio are forming a task force to investigate mortgage fraud along with representatives of the Department of Justice, Federal Tresury, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Federal Trade Commission.
This is a significant first step to arresting practices detrimental to the industry as a whole such as equity skimming, false foreclosure rescue offers, straw purchase deals and unethical and/or predatory lending practices.
We will keep you aprised of developments surrounding this effort to correct and curtail wrongdoing in the mortgage industry.