forensic loan audits

US Loan Auditors and My US Legal Services billed themselves as companies that can help homeowners who are victims of predatory lending, but they're now being sued for defrauding the same people they claimed to want to help. In a $60 million lawsuit filed by California's attorney general, the two...

Inquiries and complaints about so-called forensic loan audits, aimed at getting mortgage modifications, are soaring -- leading consumer groups to warn that many of them are scams. Consumers need to know what they are getting before hiring a business that offers forensic mortgage loan audits because...

So-called "forensic audits" are often nothing more than con games bilking distressed homeowners out of money they certainly can't afford to just toss away. One high-ranking California law enforcement official is trying to steer people away from them. Former California governor, turned current...