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The art of mortgage fraud

Posted on December 8th, 2008

In final installment of the The Miami Herald’s Borrowers Betrayed series, reporters Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman and Rob Barry show the anatomy of a massive mortgage fraud network in Florida that generated $550 million in loans during the housing boom years, and the failure of state regulators to stop one of its lead brokers.

Posted in Business, Government (federal/state/local), Justice (courts/crime/law)
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