Ex-AFG CEO Aaron Hand Pleads Guilty to Plot to Kill Witness Who Testified
Ex-AFG Financial Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aaron Hand, already imprisoned for his role in a fraudulent $100 million mortgage scheme, pleaded guilty today to plotting to kill a witness who testified against him.
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Insight: Top Justice officials connected to mortgage banks
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.
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Top 100 U.S. zip codes hit hardest by foreclosures
Neighborhoods boasting modern homes, cul-de-sacs and tree-lined streets in and around Western cities now dominate the list of the top 100 U.S. zip codes hit hardest by foreclosures and claim and comprise all of the top 10 spots, according to data generated for CNNMoney by RealtyTrac. In 2011, Western states claimed 82 of the 100 worst hit zip codes with 38 in California and another 28 in Nevada.
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Judge gives foreclosure king the Baum's rush
Steven J. Baum, who owned New York's largest home-foreclosure mill until he was recently forced to close it down, made a rare appearance in a courtroom yesterday - and was promptly ripped by a Bankruptcy Court judge frustrated by his firm's sloppy work.
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Ford County Kansas seeing surge of interest in title searches
The county received 781 documents relating to oil and gas leases in 2010, but the total for 2011 rose to 1,262.
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