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Article: FORMER MORTGAGE BROKER PLEADS GUILTY TO $20 MILLION MORTGAGE FRAUD, REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT SCAM, CHECK-KITING SCHEME
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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ATLANTA, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
EDWARD WILLIAM FARLEY, 47, of Hoschton, Georgia, today pleaded guilty in federal district court to committing a mortgage fraud, a real estate investment "Ponzi" scam involving over 150 victims, a check-kiting scheme and a bankruptcy fraud.
According to Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates and the information presented in court: FARLEY, a former mortgage broker, operated through "Creative Home Search," "Southern Land Partners," "Georgia Land Group," and "Global Mortgage" in Dunwoody and Norcross, Georgia, to defraud mortgage lenders ...