We audited the Grants Housing Authority located in Grants, NM, at the request of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Public Housing Program Center in Albuquerque, NM.  Our objective was to determine whether the Authority used its capital funds and operating funds for Read More

ST. GEORGE — Fifth District Court personnel will make a third attempt to sentence a Washington City resident next month following his conviction on fraud charges that involved the diversion of nearly $800,000 earmarked for St. George and Mesquite building projects.

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office has charged two Metro Detroit men with operating a mortgage fraud business that allegedly cheated 272 customers out of thousands. Jeffrey Baker, 45, of Detroit, and Leroy Yeargin, Jr., 44, of Southfield, were both charged Monday in Wayne County Circuit Court Read More

(Source: HUD) -- The nation’s largest mortgage servicers have failed eight of the servicing standards in the National Mortgage Settlement according to a report released by Joseph A. Smith, Jr., Monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement. The Monitor’s testing through the end of last year resulted Read More

CANTON — Two Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority employees have been fired, and the agency’s books and operational procedures are undergoing a federal review to fix numerous issues following a scathing report accusing the agency of improperly spending at least hundreds of thousands of federal tax Read More

PLATTSBURGH — Plattsburgh Housing Authority is taking legal action against its former director, seeking nearly $600,000. The Housing Authority filed a summons with notice in State Supreme Court in Clinton County against Lori A. Cantwell.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Medina builder of luxury homes and six other people have been accused in U.S. District Court in Cleveland of conspiring to commit mortgage fraud after the builder ran into financial problems because he could not sell the houses.

The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown, announces that a one-count information was returned today by a Federal Grand Jury against Delaine Williams, a 25 year old resident of Satsuma, Alabama. Williams was charged with one (1) count of providing false information to a federally insured Read More

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A former real estate lawyer from Birmingham was sentenced today to two years in prison for wire fraud in a mortgage scheme that exceeded $1 million over five years.

We audited the City of Santa Ana’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 (NSP2).  We initiated the audit as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) fiscal year 2012-2013 annual audit plan.  Our objective was to determine Read More

We audited the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured loan process at All Western Mortgage’s Las Vegas, NV, home office as part of our efforts to improve the integrity of the single-family insurance programs. We selected All Western Mortgage because it is one of the top 10 originators Read More

TULSA, OKLAHOMA—United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma Danny C. Williams Sr., joined by members of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and community counseling services, today announced a first series of arrests as the result of the Violent Crime Initiative to Read More

The Harris County Housing Authority could be forced to pay back millions of dollars to the federal government following an audit by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The regional inspector general for HUD concluded the county housing authority had mismanaged up to $27.5 million Read More

Remember when federal Judge Jed Rakoff scared the bejesus out of Wall Street in 2011? That’s when he refused to sign off on a $285-million civil settlement between Citigroup and the Securities and Exchange Commission over a massive mortgage fraud case.

HARTFORD — A federal jury took less than an hour Tuesday to find Deowraj Buddhu guilty of running a debt-reduction scam that left his financially struggling victims with deeper money troubles. Buddhu, 70, of Wethersfield was found guilty of six counts of mail fraud and seven counts of "fictitious Read More

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General audited the Utah Housing Corporation to determine whether the Corporation properly determined that borrowers were eligible to participate in FHA’s Preforeclosure Sale Program. We selected the Corporation Read More

We completed a review of Nassau County, NY Office of Community Development’s administration of its HOME Investment Partnerships Program. We selected this auditee based on a risk assessment conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) New York City Office of Read More

We reviewed alleged violations of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) requirements.  The alleged violations related to fraudulent expense reimbursements sought and received by a contractor from CDBG funds.  The Department of Read More

We audited the City of Toledo’s Community Development Block Grant-funded Code Violation Abatement Program as part of the activities in our fiscal year 2013 annual audit plan.  We selected the City’s Program based upon recent media attention regarding the City’s programs, a request by the Read More