SACRAMENTO, CA — Martin Wayne Flanders, 50, formerly of Roseville, and Ligia Sandoval Spafford, 48, of Roseville, pleaded guilty to mail fraud for their participation in a fraud scheme that targeted distressed homeowners, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

According to court documents, between 2008 and 2010, Flanders charged clients advance fees in exchange for a numbe

This case is a dispute about the administration of a family trust and the interpretation of trust documents. At the conclusion of a bench trial, the court decided in favor of plaintiff Adam J. Blumberg, the step-grandson of defendant Gloria Minthorne.1 Gloria was ordered by the court to file an accounting and quitclaim certain property to Adam. Gloria appealed. She quitclaimed that property to her

Bhika Ram and his spouse, Asharfun Nisha Hafiz, purchased a home subject to a deed of trust in 2005. After they defaulted on their home loan, nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings were initiated, and the beneficiary of the deed of trust, OneWest Bank, FSB (OneWest), purchased the property at the foreclosure sale. Ram and Hafiz filed this action against OneWest and other entities, alleging that the s

Janet Clark purchased a pickup truck from Manuel Santoy that she later discovered had been stolen from PFPP Limited Partnership d/b/a Planet Dodge (Planet Dodge). Clark lost both the pickup truck and the $22,000 she paid to Santoy. Clark sued Planet Dodge, along with a number of other defendants. As relevant to this appeal, Clark sought to recover from Planet Dodge the $22,000 she paid to Santoy,

Plaintiffs and appellants Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission (Commission) and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Association (Association)1 appeal from a judgment and order of dismissal entered following the sustaining without leave to amend of demurrers by defendants and respondents Insomniac, Inc. (Insomniac); Pasquale Rotella (Rotella); Go Ventures, Inc. (Ventures); and Reza Gerami (Gerami).2

[¶1] Gordon E. Viola appeals from a divorce judgment entered by the
District Court (Portland, Mulhern, J.) ordering him to pay spousal support, marital
debt obligations, and attorney fees to Maria K. Viola. We vacate the portion of the
judgment regarding attorney fees and remand for redetermination of a reasonable
amount. We affirm the judgment in all other respects.
I. BACKGR

Walter Minnick and A.K. Lienhart Minnick, husband and wife (collectively Minnicks), brought a professional malpractice action against the law firm Hawley Troxell Ennis and Hawley, LLP (Hawley Troxell), alleging negligence in rendering services in connection with a real estate development project. On motion of Hawley Troxell for summary judgment, the district court dismissed the action as time-barr

Fort Lauderdale, FL - A Broward real estate broker was sentenced today to 41 months in prison, three years supervised release and ordered to pay $4,029,892, in restitution to victims in three separate fraud cases by U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Miami Field O

Fort Lauderdale, FL - A Broward County resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra to 36 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $350,470.00 in restitution in a loan modification scheme.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States

COEUR D’ALENE, ID - Sally R. Hansen, 39, formerly of Athol, Idaho, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The charge stemmed from Hansen’s years as the City Clerk of Athol from 2009 to 2014.

According to court documents, during the time of her employment, Hansen used the wires and fraudulently took $417,879 from the City of Athol. She did

In this probate administration case, the children of Bertram Blechman (“the Decedent”)—Robert Blechman and Cathy Blechman Chermak—challenge an order determining their father’s ownership interest in a limited liability company to be part of his probate estate. By virtue of a provision in the operating agreement of the limited liability company, the Decedent’s membership interest immedia

Thomas Webster appeals the final judgment of foreclosure rendered in favor of
Chase Home Finance, LLC. He contends that he was not given proper notice of the
default in payments.
We believe the issue is an evidentiary matter. Under the specific provisions of the
mortgage, notice to one mortgagor constitutes sufficient notice to the other mortgagor,
and Webster does not contend

Appellees Joe Murphy, Yoram Ben-Amram, and Galtex Development, LLC1 sued the City of Galveston, claiming that the City unconstitutionally took their property without just compensation through inverse condemnation. The City filed a plea to the jurisdiction, which the trial court denied. The City timely filed this
1 We refer to the appellees collectively as the “Property Owners.”
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In an issue of first impression, we must decide whether an affirmative defense of forgery, supported by an affidavit alleging that the defendants’ signatures on a deed of trust were forged, raises a genuine issue of title intertwined with the issue of possession sufficient to deprive a justice court of jurisdiction in a forcible detainer action. We hold that it does. The courts below lacked juri

DES MOINES, IA – Former Iowa resident Christina M. Pender and California resident Robert K. Taylor have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Taylor also pled guilty to making false statements to a financial institution involving a mortgage fraud scheme in California. Pender pled guilty on April 17, 2014, and Taylor pled guilty on August 27, 201

Midland County, TX - Three former Permian Basin business owners and a title company executive were sentenced for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved approximately 800 real estate properties and about $45 million in loans announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division

JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. sued Mary A. Alexander Mohler, Kendall Lew Mohler, First Mortgage Corp. and Holland Point Homeowners Association, Inc. on a breach of contract and foreclosure theories.

Mary A. Alexander Mohler counterclaimed on breach of contract and emotion distress theories.

Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment stated, in part, as follows:
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1. On or a

PLANO, Texas – A 68 year-old Galveston, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations related to a mortgage fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas.

Yvonne Gumaer pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2013 to making a false statement in connection with an FHA insured home loan and was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Richard Sche

St. Louis, MO – MARK AVALOS pled guilty to bank fraud charges relating to his work as the Controller for The Mortgage Store, Inc. (TMS) in 2008.

According to court documents, TMS was a major mortgage brokering business with offices in four states and hundreds of employees. The main offices were in Westport Plaza and Wentzville. The businesses were operating at a financial deficit in 2

New York, NY - WILBUR ANTHONY HUFF, a Kentucky businessman, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to various tax crimes that caused more than $50 million in losses to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), and a massive fraud that involved the bribery of bank officials, the fraudulent purchase of an insurance company, and the defrauding of insurance regulators. HUFF pled guilty this afte

¶1 Bank of America, N.A. (Bank), appeals the judgment of the district court that Bank's mortgage did not include a strip of land claimed by Padgett Development Company, LLC (PDC). Bank also appeals the court's fee award to PDC as a prevailing party in Bank's foreclosure action. We affirm the decisions of the district court.

BACKGROUND

¶2 The relevant facts begin in July 1976, w

¶1 Respondent/Appellant Patti W. Brady (Wife) appeals the trial court's order granting the Motion to Correct Decree Nunc Pro Tunc filed on behalf of Michael H. Brady (Husband). The Decree of Dissolution of Marriage ("Decree") was entered June 27, 2011, and the Agreement Incident to Dissolution of Marriage ("Agreement"), incorporated by reference into the Decree, was signed by Wife and Husband Jun

William Tisdale, Hubert Jones, and Lendell Beacham were convicted by a jury on various counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, and bank fraud. They appeal the sufficiency of the evidence supporting their respective convictions, various aspects of their respective prison sentences, and the district court’s method of calculating restitution. We affirm their convictions but vacate their sentences and rem

St. Louis, MO – MARK AVALOS pled guilty to bank fraud charges relating to his work as the Controller for The Mortgage Store, Inc. (TMS) in 2008.

According to court documents, TMS was a major mortgage brokering business with offices in four states and hundreds of employees. The main offices were in Westport Plaza and Wentzville. The businesses were operating at a financial deficit in 2

Minneapolis, MN - ROBERTA BARNES, 57, pleaded guilty to using her nonprofit organizations to defraud two Minnesota state agencies, stealing more than $460,000 in state and federal grant funds. The defendant pleaded guilty on December 15, 2014, before Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn., to one count of Mail Fraud.

“This defendant stole from grant programs