Tampa mortgage brokers charged with fraud
Two Hillsborough County men have been charged with operating an organized mortgage fraud scheme that spanned more than two years and more than $34 million in loans throughout Hillsborough, Pinellas and Polk counties, state officials announced today.
As mortgage brokers for Tampa-based Sunstate Mortgage Company, David Tuggle, Jr. and Eric Steinhauser submitted more than 300 mortgage loan applications to Argent Mortgage Company as part of an elaborate scheme to defraud, according to the state Attorney General's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Two executives of subprime mortgage lender Argent Mortgage Company are also being charged in the fraud scheme.
According to the charges, Orson Benn, as vice president of Argent, approved or oversaw the approval of fraudulent loan applications submitted by Tuggle and Steinhauser. And Constance Golder, an account executive, served as a liaison between Benn and Sunstate Mortgage.
-- Amber Mobley, Times staff writer
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These bottom feeders and slimeballs and all the rest of the greedy scumbags who contributed to this fiasco we are all experiencing now should pay the price big time. Old Sparky comes to mind.
Posted by: Larry | March 25, 2008 at 03:13 PM
There’s some slime ball Title insurance companies out there also. Landmark Title and Trust for one. They dissolved the Corporation and on the form said they don’t owe anyone. What a joke, isn’t that perjury. Some people think there above the law.
Posted by: Terry | March 25, 2008 at 03:33 PM
This could not happen to nicer people! I witnessed their sleezeball operation and am so happy for them!
Posted by: Anonymous | March 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM
poor constance! she was just the account executive. she's a really good person, too.
Posted by: Joe M | July 23, 2008 at 02:55 AM