Albany, NY Feds Announce Guilty Pleas Of Two In "Straw Buyer" Mortgage Fraud Scam

In Albany, New York, EmpireStateNews.net reports:

• Federal authorities in Albany Tuesday announced that Anthony Anderson and his wife, Laura Anderson, both of Florence, Massachusetts, pled guilty Tuesday ... in Albany to felony charges in connection with their roles in a 2001-02 mortgage fraud scheme. Anthony Andersen, 53, pled guilty to submitting false statements to a federally insured financial institution for the purpose of influencing its action on loan applications and to money laundering involving causing monetary transactions over $10,000 to be conducted in funds derived from such specified unlawful activity. [...] Laura Andersen, 49, also pled guilty today to one count of making false statements to law enforcement and in connection with her participation in her husband's scheme.

For more, see Massachusetts couple pleads guilty to mortgage fraud in New York.

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