Federal Assistance Program

Debt Relief Scammer Gets More Than 11 Years Behind Bars

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Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), and Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, today announced that Jonathan L. Herbert, age 36, of Lighthouse Point, Fla., was sentenced today to 140 months in federal prison for wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent mortgage …

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Consumers With Mortgage Problems Continue to be Gullible Lambs

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After writing about consumer debt issues for decades now, I have to admit it gets very frustrating watching people fall for the same old scams over and over. Do people never learn or does commonsense and logic just fly out the window the minute someone shoves an official looking document in your face? The SIGTARP …

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