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State of Michigan Bans Eleven from Mortgage Industry
The State of Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) recently announced its most recent list of brokers who are now prohibited from participating in Michigan’s residential mortgage loan and financial services industries. For anyone who has not been following Michigan’s fight against real estate and mortgage fraud and the scammers who commit such crimes, the state’s residential mortgage loan acts grant the OFIS the authority to ban anyone from participating in Michigan’s consumer finance industry if the Commission finds that that person has engaged in fraud.
The following individuals–most of whom have felony convictions involving fraud, dishonesty, and breach of trust–are now barred from ever working again in the mortgage or any other regulated consumer finance industries in Michigan:
Ronnie Duke of Fenton, Michigan
Joseph Saad of Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Ronald Ribant of Southfield, Michigan
Robert Troub of Portland, Michigan
Chad Eugene Willis of Detroit, Michigan
Marvin R. Fried of West Bloomfield, Michigan
James Keyton of Traverse City, Michigan
Richard Major of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Brian Winborn of Ypsilanti, Michigan
Kalil Khalil of Brownstone Township, Michigan
Tariq Hamad of Taylor, Michigan
The bans were prompted by fraudulent activity that included equity stripping “foreclosure rescue” schemes; flipping of property involving inflated property values and undisclosed non-arms length transactions; providing borrower down-payment funds, without disclosing such assistance to the lender or investor; creation of fictitious loan application supporting documentation, such as W-2’s, verifications of deposits, and verifications of employment; occupancy fraud; and, converting loan proceeds or other funds for personal use.
OFIS has also revoked the mortgage licenses of William C. Phillips, doing business as Integrity Financial and Urban Mortgage Services of Redford; and Minute Man Financial Holding Co. and Metropolitan Financial & Funding Services of Detroit; and issued a Cease and Desist Order against Chad Eugene Willis’ unlicensed mortgage company, The Mortgage Highway LLC.