11 arrested in mortgage fraud scam (Boston Herald)
An 11-member ring of Boston lawyers, mortgage brokers and others stole identities, inflated home prices and more to swindle lenders out of nearly $2 million, prosecutors say. ...
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Indicators Point to Slowdown The discovery of the Internet and the resultant dot-com boom was followed by the tremendous growth experienced by the U.S. economy from 1997 to 2000.read more...
Bankruptcy: a Drastic Step but Sometimes the Wisest One John Ventura is on a mission to inform consumers about their credit, debt and rights in a bankruptcy. read more...
Marketing, Customer Service Strategies for Dean Saunders' Businesses Want to sound like a knowledgeable collector? Use an unfamiliar term, like "matsu-no-ke" (pronounced "mat-sue-no-kay"). It is the name of a special type of three-dimensional hand-applied glass decoration. Stevens &
Consumers are awash with ways to create the perfect throne Long before the computer, there was the other home office. You know, "the reading room," a.k.a. "the powder room" or its countless other euphemisms.Commentread more...
SFO lays charges for mortgage frauds (Stuff) The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged 11 people in Auckland and Christchurch with mortgage fraud and will prosecute next year.read more...
Mortgage money in short supply / Pullback in homes: Two new reports say the housing market is in trouble nationally as ... (San Francisco Chronicle) The housing market continues to crater locally and nationally, as the shortage of mortgage money keeps buyers at bay, according to a pair of reports released Tuesday. In the Bay