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Feds: Belleville Real Estate Investor Nabbed In Million-Dollar Mortgage Scheme Feds: Belleville Real Estate Investor Nabbed In Million-Dollar Mortgage Scheme
Feds: Belleville Real Estate Investor Nabbed In Million-Dollar Mortgage Scheme A Belleville real estate investor doctored applications to obtain more than $1 million in mortgages that all defaulted, federal authorities said. Cabral Simpson, 43, and a group of co-conspirators left lenders and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development holding the bag by creating bogus bank statements and fake employee verification records for unqualified property buyers, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They then transferred enough money into the buyers’ bank accounts to cover the property deposit, Carpenito said. The scheme "induced lenders to issue more than $1 million …

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by Jerry DeMarco