Archive for Ethiopian Review
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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