Central Florida $13M Home Improvement & Mortgage Fraud Scam Yields Another Guilty Plea

The Florida Attorney General's Office announces:

• Attorney General Bill McCollum [Wednesday] announced that a Hillsborough County woman pleaded guilty to criminal charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering. Adrienne L. White was involved in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scam that stretched across the state and involved one of the nation’s largest sub-prime mortgage companies. [...] White, 31, was part of a criminal enterprise which submitted nearly 130 fraudulent documents to Argent Mortgage Company for approximately $13 million in home loans. The three-year investigation was initiated by consumer complaints about incomplete or substandard construction work performed by construction companies affiliated with White’s co-defendants. Her associates would secure fraudulently-obtained mortgages for these homeowners to finance the home repair construction projects.

For more, see the Florida AG's news release: Hillsborough County Woman Pleads to Criminal Racketeering Involving Mortgage Fraud.

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