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Historical marker at the site of the Georgia Capitol at the time. The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews [1] and the Georgia General Assembly.
During his trial, prosecutors identified Hill as the ringleader in three interlocking mortgage fraud schemes built on metro-Atlanta real estate sales that, between 2001 and 2003, bilked lenders out of more than $40 million. According to the evidence at trial, Hill was the owner and operator of "We Build Atlanta, Inc.,"
Real estate fraud takes many forms, but title fraud is one scam that's reportedly becoming more widespread. Title fraud happens when criminals — sometimes called title pirates — file fake ...
Tattnall and Jackson both opposed the Yazoo land scandal, the massive real estate fraud led by Georgia governor George Mathews and the General Assembly that rocked early Georgia politics. Jackson resigned his position as U.S. senator to return to the Georgia General Assembly, where he and Tattnall led the campaign against the sale of the Yazoo ...
A Georgia man has been arrested for posing as a Neal Land & Communities representative to defraud Manatee County of nearly $1.4 million.
FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report revealed there were 9,521 real estate-based fraud complaints in 2023, which resulted in over $145 million in losses. Well, title fraud is ...
Matthew Bevan "Matt" Cox (born July 2, 1969) is an American former mortgage broker and admitted mortgage fraudster and con man. Cox, also a true crime author, wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled The Associates in which the main character traveled the country to perpetrate a mortgage fraud scheme similar to the one Cox ran.
In 2022, the FBI received 11,727 real estate-related complaints with losses of over $396 million, an 86% increase versus 2020 levels. Home sale scams ramp up amid a housing market short on ...