Florida Mortgage Broker Charged In Multimillion Dollar Racketeering Fraud

The St. Petersburg Times reports:

• "State investigators arrested a Lithia man Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar racketeering mortgage fraud case, the result of a three-year probe into the former mortgage broker. Scott A. Almeida ... is accused of obtaining mortgages under false pretenses, according to his attorney, Todd Foster. Almeida faces charges of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, seven counts of grand theft and six counts of obtaining a mortgage by false representation, jail records show."

For more, see Arrest made in mortgage fraud case (A man is in jail after a three-year inquiry).

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