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Mortgage Fraud

Predatory Lending: Confessions from Inside the Fraud

by Michael CorleyDecember 18, 2009

While we continue to make every effort to bring you a view into the brazen, unapologetic, predatory lending practices that have caused the Foreclosure Crisis in our weekly series, Thursday Perp Walk: Lifestyles of the Charged, Tried and Convicted, your about to see the lengths that Mortgage Lenders and Wall Street went to in the name of GREED. View the video and see how it was done.

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Thursday Perp Walk: Lifestyles of the Charged, Tried and Convicted

by Michael CorleyDecember 17, 2009

Thursday Perp Walk, a regular feature on MyBrooklynReport.com, will introduce you to the social predators who preyed on unsuspecting home buyers, home owners and home lenders. Perpetrating mortgage fraud in real estate usually begins with just two people with quite a bit of cooperation from individuals behind the scenes. Witness the ease of these smooth criminals caught in their greed.

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How 39 Herkimer Street was Stolen from its Rightful Owner

by Michael CorleyNovember 15, 2009

House Theft isn’t new. It’s a crime that knows no racial, economic or neighborhood boundaries. Real Estate is attractive to the criminally inclined.

In a City that still employs a fundamentally flawed deed recording process, it’s a miracle that there aren’t more victims of this heinous crime that’s intentionally perpetrated on the weak and elderly.

Margaret Franklin happens to be one of many victims that have had their homes stolen. What’s painful about this story is that Margaret was hospitalized and dying of cancer when she was targeted.