14 Indicted in Sarasota Real Estate Flipping Fraud Case
Former real estate agent Craig Adams and a group of associates allegedly defrauded banks of $47 million by flipping properties for overstated prices, fooling lenders into writing inflated mortgages.
Palm Coast FL – March 1, 2011
Fourteen people are now facing federal charges in what law enforcement officials described Friday as the largest mortgage fraud conspiracy in Sarasota history.
Sarasota – Fourteen people are now facing federal charges in what law enforcement officials described Friday as the largest mortgage fraud conspiracy in Sarasota history.
During a press conference, U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill unsealed court documents that explain how former real estate agent Craig Adams and a group of associates defrauded banks out of $47 million by flipping properties for overstated prices and fooling lenders into writing inflated mortgage loans.
The list of those indicted include some of Sarasota’s highest-flying real estate professionals — people who got rich during the real estate boom only to lose it all when the market turned.
Those named in the unsealed indictments are only a fraction of the group Adams worked with during the past decade. A 2009 Herald-Tribune investigation uncovered roughly two dozen people in Adams’ flipping circle, with a combined $100 million in mortgage defaults between them.
Full Story >>>> Herald-Tribune [Feb 25, 2011]
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