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DRE Hot Seat: Prison time for a broker who committed heinous mortgage fraud

This article is part of an ongoing series covering violations of real estate law. Here, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced a broker to 5 years and 4 months in prison and ordered him to pay restitution for creating forged and fraudulent records to obtain more than $8 million in mortgages for his clients in order to earn fees for himself.

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DRE Hot Seat: When mortgage originations go off the rails, repeatedly

This article is part of an ongoing series covering violations of real estate law. Here, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) revoked the real estate license of a broker who failed to disclose broker compensation received on mortgage origination forms, while also misrepresenting themselves as a lender and not as the buyer’s agent.

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