A Newport Beach woman is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on a dozen charges that she is the mastermind of a mortgage fraud scheme that ripped banks off of more than $3.6 million. Mailan Thu Tran, 45, of Newport Coast, is charged with 11 counts of …

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Jeffrey Wigginton was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for his part in a mortgage investment scam, according to court records. Wigginton, a former member of Lapin and Wigginton Asset Management, a subsidiary of Premiere Holdings, was …

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NEW YORK (AP) – Hundreds of people have entered the JPMorgan Chase & Co. offices to protest what they say is the bank’s insufficient efforts to help struggling homeowners save their homes. The protest Monday was organized by the non-profit …

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Mortgage rates moved higher today as MBS prices fell following two better than expected economic reports. The move lower in MBS prices forced lenders to reduce rate sheet rebate, pushing consumer borrowing costs higher for the third consecutive day …

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MILLIONS of home owners are £200-a-month better off now than they were this time last year thanks to record low interest rates. And there was yet more good news for the property market as competition among lenders led to a 43 per cent rise in …

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. played a bigger role in fueling the mortgage bets that crippled American Insurance Group Inc. than has been publicly disclosed, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. An analysis by the paper of AIG’s trades on pools of …

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NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of people have entered the JPMorgan Chase & Co. offices to protest what they say is the bank’s insufficient efforts to help struggling homeowners save their homes. The protest Monday was organized by the non-profit …

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Lenders have failed to exhaust all possible ways of keeping people in their homes in a third of repossession cases, a report by charities has said. Mortgage providers are expected to use repossession only as a last resort under legal rules. But …

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Hundreds of people have entered the JPMorgan Chase & Co. offices to protest what they say is the bank’s insufficient efforts to help struggling homeowners save their homes. The protest Monday was organized by the non-profit Neighborhood Assistance …

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My Blue Dog opponent refuses to debate me. I am ready and willing – and I have a question for Jane Harman: Why did you side with Republicans to defeat a mortgage-relief amendment to the financial overhaul bill? With several thousand people in our …

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