Fighting back against swindlers
The mortgage swindlers don't have to win. Neighborhoods can fight back. That's what happened in Rogers Park when a fraud crew took control of 16 hulking apartment buildings between 1997...
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With mortgage fraud, it’s catch ’em if you can
Police Officer Jim Fennessey holds his pistol by his right knee as he slides through the yawning rear door of a darkened South Side house. "Po-lice! Po-lice!" Fennessey hollers, breaking...
Devine urges inquiry into mortgage fraud
Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine called Wednesday for a joint local, state and federal task force to investigate and prosecute mortgage fraud. In response to this week's Tribune investigation...
Fighting back against swindlers
The mortgage swindlers don't have to win. Neighborhoods can fight back. That's what happened in Rogers Park when a fraud crew took control of 16 hulking apartment buildings between 1997...
How fraud became the nightmare on May St.
One by one, four houses on May Street went dark, and none of the neighbors quite knew why. From the front yard of the tidy bungalow where she was raised,...
How fraud became the nightmare on May St.
One by one, four houses on May Street went dark, and none of the neighbors quite knew why. From the front yard of the tidy bungalow where she was raised,...
Selling hopes and schemes
He sold dreams in face-to-face encounters. Kenneth Steward held himself out as a financial adviser to cash-strapped families in danger of losing their homes. His business cards said he ran...
Even big boys get scammed
Working rapidly, the team of investigators descended on a Chicago branch office of a giant global bank. In sparsely appointed meeting rooms, they interrogated junior account managers and frightened clerks....
Citigroup’s costly merger
Mortgage fraud was not the only problem Citigroup inherited when it bought Associates First Capital Corp. in 2000. Following the merger, the Federal Trade Commission filed a civil lawsuit alleging...
Lunch with a felon: catfish, smiles and denial
Nightclub singer, record producer, financial adviser and convicted felon Jocqua Carter took a last sip of lemonade as the Saturday luncheon crowd thinned at Captain's Hard Times restaurant on East...