Ex Mortgage Broker Steals Client's I.D., Buys $400K Home, Gets Jail Time

In Connecticut, the Hartford Courant reports:

• "A former mortgage broker who used a client's identity to buy herself a $400,000 house in a plum Manchester neighborhood is headed to prison after her conviction Tuesday on identity theft and forgery charges. A judge in Superior Court in Hartford sentenced Elsa Joiner, 37, of Manchester, to a 12-year prison term, suspended after four years, plus five years of probation. [...] [The client] had to file a civil lawsuit to get her name removed from the mortgage."

All told, Joiner forged her client's name on 29 documents in this identity theft, mortgage fraud scam. For more, see Former Mortgage Broker Gets 4 Years In Prison.