Continuing the series on Mr. Behr’s mortgage fraud prosecutions in Florida: 18 U.S.C. §1014 Loan and credit applications generally; renewals and discounts; crop insurance Under this federal statute, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt (1) a person knowingly made any material misrepresentations (2) directly to any specific federally…
Continuing in Attorney Behr’s mortgage fraud prosecutions series: 18 U.S.C. § 1010 Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Administration transactions & 18 U.S.C. § 1006 Federal credit institution entries, reports and transactions In United States v. Mclean, 131 Fed.Appx. 34 (4th Cir. 2005), Mclean was convicted under…
Continuing the series on Mr. Behr’s mortgage fraud prosecutions in Florida: IV. STATUES i. Federal Defendants who find themselves within the prosecutorial jurisdiction of the federal government are not indicted under a particular mortgage fraud statute, but are prosecuted under a number of different statutes. Assistant United States Attorneys (ASA)…
Making the first entry today, this series of continual excerpts from a legal paper written by Ralph Behr himself will delve into the court system and its prosecution of mortgage fraud in Florida. Mr. Behr took copious amounts of time and effort to research the topic and provided the following…
Ruth Madoff is under heat in regards to whether she can continue to stay at her living quarters or if she has to let the government seize them. Lawyers of Bernie Madoff are claiming that millions in assets of Bernie are in the escrow of Mrs. Madoff and thus untouchable…
Louis Beverly, an ACORN activist, faces charges of fourth-degree burglary, a first in the realm of the foreclosure market. The activist, a part of ACORN (the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now) is facing these criminal charges in response to the breaking and entering of a home in southeast…
With the economy tanking, those who took advantage of the situation are now feeling the heat. Anthony Dehaney, 57, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for concocting a $12 million mortgage fraud scheme that helped slide the Florida market and economy further downward than it already was. He pled…
Florida Federal Criminal Cases: Mortgage Fraud The US Attorney for the Middle District of Florida convicted and sentenced Brian Albritton to tens years for mortgage fraud. The allegations are that staring in 2004 he participated in a mortgage rescue operation for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The allegations are a…
The US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach) arrested Magile Cruz. Cruz is alleged to have participated in $24,000,000 of allegedly fraudulent mortgages. There has been a lot of political pressure on prosecutors in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach to arrest and…
Miami has a Mortgage Fraud taskforce working overtime to grab headlines but many criminal defense lawyers in Broward and Fort Lauderdale view the arrests as a public relations ploy. Alleging fraud, racketeering, grand theft and money laundering in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, the Miami police arrested 14 mortgage brokers and…