FBI Arrests Prominent People In New Haven In Massive Mortgage Fraud Case
June 18th, 2010 admin
The New Haven Independent reported today that “federal agents charged 15 people—some of them prominent local figures—with undertaking massive mortgage fraud and moved to take control of 51 blighted New Haven properties Thursday, as the government’s response to the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis took a new legal turn.” “The feds’ charges were laid out in
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