Philly notary public charged with forging documents to steal deeds of more than 20 city homes
A woman working as a notary public in Philadelphia is charged with committing deed fraud to steal more than 20 city homes from their owners during the past eight years, District Attorney Larry Krasner said Wednesday afternoon. Gwendolyn Schell, 67, of Germantown, is accused of forging signatures on documents to illegally transfer the deeds of properties in various parts of the city beginning in 2017.
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Ohio woman wins back home after quitclaim deed scam while battling cancer
"I saw the deed, like I didn't sign this. I didn't do that document," Mobley said. The quitclaim deed, which does not require money to change hands or a title search to be completed to verify the owner of the property, had been filed with what Mobley says was a forged signature and a fake notary stamp and signature. The deed also omitted her marital status - a red flag authorities should have caught.
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Appeals court temporarily bars mass firings at CFPB
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld a temporary injunction issued by Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibiting the CFPB from firing more than 1,400 employees, leaving only about 200 employees at the agency.
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In-House Lawyer Claims Title Insurer Axed Him Over Pro Bono Help
Clayton Jackson said he thought he was just giving some pro bono advice to neighbors who worried that they may be deported. Yet after the former Big Law litigator talked publicly about the incident-and how the Trump administration's crackdown might affect some of his company's clients-he wound up getting fired by title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc.
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Family buys house in Morton Grove, Illinois, only to be stymied by seller's code violations
Hovey and her husband were paying for a mortgage, rent and a litigation attorney - who apparently told her she should have been protected. "[We were told], 'The title company should've protected you, your attorney should've protected you, the seller's attorney should've done this, the seller should've done that,'" Hovey said. "So it seems like there is enough blame to go around for all of the other parties in this, and we're just kind of like a family caught in the crossfire."
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State regulators pull license of title company connected to ABC Capital
One of the title companies that handled ABC Capital's disastrous sale of hundreds of homes in distressed Baltimore neighborhoods to foreign buyers has been stripped of its license. The move by the state's insurance regulators against Masters Title is the latest fallout since The Baltimore Banner exposed how ABC Capital marketed more than 1,000 homes to buyers in foreign countries and, in many cases, failed to deliver on promised renovations and tenants, compounding problems in Baltimore's already-distressed neighborhoods.
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