(Source: SIGTARP) — Howard Shmuckler, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced yesterday to 90 months in federal prison for running a fraudulent mortgage-modification business that received substantial up-front fees from victims but actually modified clients’ mortgages in only a few cases, announced the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Read the news release here.
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