September 05, 2025
A 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of aggravated identity theft may not be used to vacate a former attorney's prison sentence for a mortgage fraud scheme, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday, denying a request to throw out his plea deal and order a new trial.
August 16, 2023
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Cape Cod home of an attorney and his wife who received prison sentences last year for a mortgage fraud scheme was subject to forfeiture to the federal government.
August 29, 2022
A former real estate attorney has been sentenced in Boston to 6½ years in prison and ordered to pay $6.4 million for defrauding banks and homeowners he was supposed to be representing.