Oregon AG, State Represntative Squeeze Refund Out Of Loan Modification Racket For Elderly Couple Hoodwinked Into Defaulting On Mortgage

In Medford, Oregon, the Mail Tribune reports:

• A Gold Hill couple may lose their home because of the illegal acts of a Florida-based mortgage consultant now being sanctioned by the Oregon attorney general. 1st Call Consultants, of Boca Raton, Fla., must stop doing business in Oregon and was required to repay $1,500 that Eva and Vern Patterson paid the consulting firm for help modifying their mortgage.

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• Attorney General John Kroger and [state representative Dennis] Richardson were in Medford [] to present a check from 1st Call reimbursing the Pattersons for the illegally collected fee. [... T]he Pattersons plan to meet with ACCESS Inc., which provides foreclosure prevention help through federally approved programs. Richardson said he plans to contact the Pattersons' lender to help explain that the aging couple was "hoodwinked into defaulting" by 1st Call's bad advice.

For the story, see Retirees might lose home in land scam (Oregon attorney general bars Florida firm from doing business in the state).