Friday, June 25, 2010

Armed With Search Warrant, Feds, California State Bar Pay A Visit To Law Center Offering Forensic Loan Auditing, F'closure/Loan Modification Services

In Oceanside, California, North County Times reports:
  • Agents with the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the State Bar of California served search warrants Wednesday at two related Oceanside loan modification businesses. The raids took place at the First American Law Center, 615 Mission Ave. in downtown Oceanside, and the Lead Source, 2101 El Camino Real.

  • FBI officials said there were no arrests Wednesday, and they declined further comment. Dean Chandler, president of the First American Law Center, said he was in Arizona when his office was raided. He said he had not been contacted by agents, and he was not sure why his business was being investigated. [...] Chandler is an attorney who was admitted to the California Bar in 1992, according to the California State Bar's website. He has never had any action against his license, according to the site.

For more, see Agents serve search warrants on loan modification businesses (FBI officials say no arrests made in raid).