Indiana AG File Civil Suit Against Notorious Alleged California Loan Modification Racket

In Allen County, Indiana, The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports:

• Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller sued a California mortgage relief company, alleging violation of Indiana’s deceptive consumer sales act. The lawsuit, filed this month in Allen Superior Court, is not the only one pending against Home Relief Services LLC, which is facing more legal troubles in California, including felony charges, according to court records.(1)

• Zoeller sued the company, as well as its legal affiliate, The Diener Law Firm, on behalf of both Allen and Elkhart county residents, according to court documents. The attorney general is asking a judge to enjoin the company from continuing to violate Indiana’s consumer protection laws, as well as order it to pay restitution.

For more, see Foreclosure aid firm sued by state for alleged breach.

(1) According to the story, California officials filed a similar lawsuit against the company, alleging Home Relief Services and its agents persuaded homeowners to stop dealing directly with their mortgage lenders and charged $4,000 in upfront fees with a promise of mortgage modification, according to the California attorney general’s Web site. In addition, Christopher Lee Diener, Stefano Joseph Marrero and Terrence Green Sr., all named as defendants in the Indiana lawsuit because of their involvement with the company, have been charged in Orange County, Calif., with 98 felonies alleging grand theft by false pretense and conspiracy to commit grand theft by false pretense, according to court documents, the story states.