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Las Vegas mortgage brokers indicted in home-financing scheme
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Updated: Jul. 21, 2011 | 2:45 a.m.
Two mortgage brokers were indicted Wednesday in Las Vegas on conspiracy and wire fraud charges.
The federal indictment describes Kelly Nunes and Heidi Haischer as licensed Nevada mortgage brokers who worked at Atlas Mortgage. It claims the pair conspired to commit wire fraud in early 2007.
"The object of the conspiracy was for the defendants to obtain financing to purchase homes using defendant Heidi Haischer as a straw buyer and by causing false information to be placed in loan applications and supporting and related documents," the indictment alleges.
According to the indictment, Haischer was listed as the buyer on a Henderson home that sold for $675,000 and on a Las Vegas home that sold for $536,000, although the defendants did not intend for Haischer "to either reside in, or be financially responsible for, the two homes."
The indictment also claims the defendants paid the manager of an adult entertainment facility in Las Vegas to provide a lender with false verification of employment for Haischer.
Nunes and Haischer each face one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud. The defendants are scheduled to appear for an arraignment on July 29.
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Two very small fish in this housing fiasco were caught----the feds should go after the bigger fish, like Bank of America. (Aren't they still refusing to negotiate in good faith with people who are asking for modified loans) ?
And you wonder why the Vegas housing market is in the toilet. These two are part of the reason why.
There is good news in this crisis; Wells Fargo has been fined $85 million dollars in one of many cases that should come up in the future to penalize those who caused the housing crisis. These suits need to reach Congress and jail the lawmakers who forced the banks into risky loans as well.
I know tons of people that do that after they walk away from their houses and are barred from buying others because of low FICO scores or heaven forbid, a bankruptcy on their credit report. That doesn't end life as they'd like it. They give their money they don't have to pay out to someone else. That person buys the house and the walkaway moves right in. If that wasn't done, you'd have more empty houses out there. No on is putting up being a willing cry-baby victim to the housing crap that went down. Where there's a will, there's a way. Wonder what they did to get someone upset to report them?
After what seemed like a lifetime of thirty-Year adjustable-rate mortgages, with monthly mortgage payments going up all the time, The "123 Refinance" helped me to lock in a great low fixed rate of 3.16%, helping me to guarantee myself the ability to always make my mortgage payment on time with money to spare.