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David Saks is a musician, retired real estate broker, and long-time ActiveRain member. David's blog features important information relevant to the safety, integrity and security of the industry. In addition to his widely read real estate fraud blog, a comprehensive overview of real estate continuing education is a weekly addition for his subscribers and the ActiveRain community at-large. Thank you for subscribing to and for visiting David's ActiveRain home on the internet. Please join. Membership in ActiveRain will enrich your life !

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2012 

Alleged Mortgage Assistance Company Shut Down At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted a nationwide scam operating from the Dominican Republic – but pretending to be in Chicago – that allegedly peddled fake mortgage assistance relief to financially distress...
08/03/2012
Jury Convicts 2 Attorneys of Mortgage Fraud Matthew Burstein, 40, and Aaron Rabinowitz, 40, both New York attorneys, were convicted by a federal jury on ten felony counts for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in over $25 million in fraudulently-obtained loans from Countrywide...
08/03/2012
Sisters Go to Jail for Forgery and Straw Buyer Scam Sunti Shah, 51, and Supriti Soni, 52, two sisters, were sentenced Friday, July 27, 2012, for conspiring with two other family members to commit over $16 million in real estate fraud by forging documents and purchasing homes using straw buyers.  ...
08/03/2012
Two Individuals Convicted in Florida in Foreclosure Rescue Scheme U.S. Department of Justice August 02, 2012 Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202) 514-1888   WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice today convicted two defendants for their roles in a South Florida mortgage fraud scheme t...
08/03/2012
Former Berks County Recorder of Deeds Charged in Fraud Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office July 31, 2012 Eastern District of Pennsylvania (215) 861-8200   PHILADELPHIA—An indictment was filed today charging the former Berks County Recorder of Deeds, Elba Antoine, a/k/a Ellie, 68, of Bluffton, South Ca...
08/01/2012
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