| Asymmetrical time, asymmetrical crime. |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|05:25 pm] |
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason today announced details of an 18-month investigation that led to indictments against 41 people and four companies. The defendants are alleged to have engaged in real estate transactions to purchase 453 homes with fraudulent loans totaling $44 million. ...
Размеры НЕорганизованной преступности сегодня заставили бы Аль Капоне
посереть от зависти. Их просто для удобства делопроизводства объединили
в одну группу, на самом деле там каждый за себя думал и "так
получалось".
The scheme involved using straw buyers to purchase homes, falsely claiming home improvements were performed on houses in order to refinance them, and then selling houses to unqualified buyers with the assistance of real estate agents, mortgage brokers and title companies.
Вся система проверок, что была поставлена предотвращать обман, проверяющие проверяющих проверяющих подписывающих, прогнила. Все познакомились и зажили дружно.
Lenders were tricked into believing that the buyers were making at least a 10% down payment when they were not, that the buyers had assets when they did not, and that the properties were worth more than they actually were. [Defendants] defrauded lenders through loan application fraud, down payment fraud and loan distribution fraud. The defendants siphoned off more than $31 million in profits from their criminal enterprise. Eventually, 358 of the homes fell into foreclosure.
А разгадка простая, деньги приличные, а даже такую простую вещь, как проверка наличия судимости,
не делают.
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