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ICE fraud investigation returns millions to victims

PHILADELPHIA – After years of tracking and seizing assets such as foreign bank accounts, luxury cars, and real estate, all bought with money gained through

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20Mar2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Connecticut Real Estate Development Firm Exec Sentenced in Fraud Scheme

serve in home confinement with electronic monitoring, for conspiring with real estate developer Richard Girouard to defraud an investor out of money.

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10Mar2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Florida Real Estate Appraiser Sentenced in Mortgage Fraud Scheme

Gonzalez retained Westergom, who was a licensed real estate appraiser, to appraise most of the properties. Westergom then fraudulently inflated the

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1Mar2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Deconstructing Buffett

They feed him data from Berkshire’s portfolio of companies—sales of building materials, jewelry, furniture, real estate, credit, fractional jets,

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28Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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INTERVIEW-Banker sees US failed bank tally hitting 1000

said 300 to 400 banks could be seized this year, especially as institutions start to deal with deteriorating commercial real estate loans.

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27Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Mortgage Fraud Scheme

The mortgage loan documents involved required that all cash payments between a buyer and seller associated with a real estate transaction be disclosed.

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21Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Five Sentenced in California in $13 Million Mortgage Fraud Case

LOS ANGELES—A Downey woman who orchestrated a real estate fraud scheme that caused nearly $13 million in losses after falsely promising to help homeowners

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20Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Former Missouri Real Estate Broker Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud

From 2003 through 2008, Randall Penberthy, Jr. was engaged in the business of brokering real estate transactions in the St. Louis metropolitan area and

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19Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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Awaiting the alternative energy sukuk: Innovation vs conservatism

MANAMA, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Dubai’s debt fiasco and real estate bubble bust pushes investors to look out for alternative assets underlying Islamic finance

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19Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued
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California Man Pleads Guilty to Role in $33 Million Ponzi Scheme

A 33-year-old Long Beach man who operated a number of ventures that he used to solicit money with false claims of profitable investments in real estate has

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19Feb2010 | Ethiopian Review | Continued