If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The military in Iraq wasn’t the only thing surging in 2008. Mortgage fraud also reached a new high last year, according to the FraudBlogger Index. Federal investigators have identified an increase in frauds and schemes in the real estate [...]
A guest post by Jay C. Hammond, freelance journalist and researcher.
There are plenty of candidates for blame in the current mortgage meltdown. Yet the ability of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate mortgage fraud and other financial crimes is increasingly being called into question. The FBI and the Department of Justice are the agencies [...]