Two NY Attorneys, 4 Others Accused Of Foreclosure Rescue Scam
Attorneys John Lewis and Angelyn Johnson are among six people who have been charged with selling the house out from under a financially strapped Rosedale, New York woman in a foreclosure rescue arrangement involving forgery, according to online articles on EmpireStateNews.net and the North Country Gazette.
According to the Queens County District Attorney, the attorneys have each been charged with second degree grand larceny, second degree forgery, second degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, first degree scheme to defraud and first degree falsifying business records, and face 15 years in prison if convicted.
The charges are the result of a joint ten month investigation between the DA's office and the NYPD’s Special Fraud’s Squad.
For more, see Mortgage fraud scheme broken up, and Attorneys Arrested In Real Estate Scheme.
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According to the Queens County District Attorney, the attorneys have each been charged with second degree grand larceny, second degree forgery, second degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, first degree scheme to defraud and first degree falsifying business records, and face 15 years in prison if convicted.
The charges are the result of a joint ten month investigation between the DA's office and the NYPD’s Special Fraud’s Squad.
For more, see Mortgage fraud scheme broken up, and Attorneys Arrested In Real Estate Scheme.
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posted by Home Equity Theft Reporter at 12:58 PM
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