Prince George's County Mortgage Foreclosure Fraud Unit Intent On Criminally Prosecuting Scammers

In Prince George's County, Maryland, The Sentinel reports:

• [I]n the last two months and on several occasions, [Prince George's County] State's Attorney Glenn Ivey has emphatically stated his intent to aggressively surface and prosecute mortgage scammers who have defrauded new homeowners. "Not in this county, not in this state," is the mantra under which the new Division operates, said its staff.

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• [The Economic Crimes Unit of Ivey's office] is screening more than 10 calls a day, making a distinction between bad financial decisions vs. fraud for theft and fraud for profit and then investigating and prosecuting the most egregious first.

• While Montgomery County's State's Attorney's office is also prosecuting mortgage fraud, Prince George's is the only jurisdiction with a dedicated unit, said Assistant State's Attorney Doyle Niemann, also of the Division, some weeks ago.

For more, see Briefing sheds light on mortgage fraud.