Banks Prefer Cash Buyers in REO Sales; Freddie Mac Streamline Refi Program; Originator Capacity Constraints; Comments on Property Flipping
September 3, 2010 – 6:26 amPosted To: Pipeline Press
If there’s one thing that an investor will never let any originator off the buyback hook for, it’s fraud . Not only that, but the penalties can go far beyond merely buying back the loan, and saying’ “My bad.” Just in the last few days, Laura-Jean Arvelo and Ronald O’Malley, a New Jersey mortgage broker and former head of the Bergen County Improvement Authority, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of preparing fraudulent mortgage applications. Both are charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and loan application fraud in order to take bogus documents and falsified applications to trick lenders into making mortgage loans and benefited from fees they received. Ryan Miller of Missouri was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison and pay $6 million in restitution for mortgage fraud…(read more)