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A "Legal name fraud" billboard in the United Kingdom. A variation of the strawman theory is found in the "legal name fraud" movement, which believes that birth certificates give the state legal ownership of a personal name and that refusing to use this name removes oneself from the state's authority and a court's jurisdiction. [19] [20]
The United States government has successfully prosecuted and convicted a number of redemption scheme participants. The convictions include forgery, providing false information, passing fictitious financial instruments, defrauding the United States, counterfeiting, impeding administration, filing false tax returns, money laundering and wire fraud.
A straw borrower is a United States term for an individual whose name, social security number, and credit history are used to hide the identity of the organizers of a for-profit mortgage fraud scheme. Straw buyers are also used in order to obtain a residential mortgage for a person who would not qualify for the loan, frequently a family member ...
A 60-year-old Detroit area home builder who was sentenced this week to six months in prison for mortgage fraud involving straw buyers got off pretty easy considering bank fraud is punishable by 30 ...
In Canada, the Bank of Montreal sued hundreds of people, including Federal Conservative MP Devinder Shory, for allegedly being involved in a mortgage fraud in which the bank lost $30 million. [5] The bank alleged that straw buyers, in exchange for a cash payment, applied for mortgage loans in the Calgary area on behalf of other parties and knew ...
Federal officials announced Tuesday that a New York tax preparer known as "the Magician" pleaded guilty to filing tens of thousands of false tax returns, which officials say has cost the ...
Tania Head had one of the most harrowing accounts from 9/11 and eventually became the president of a survivor's network, but the Spanish woman was ultimately proved to be a fraud and wasn't even ...
Strawman sockpuppet A strawman sockpuppet (sometimes abbreviated as strawpuppet ) is a false flag pseudonym created to make a particular point of view look foolish or unwholesome in order to generate negative sentiment against it.