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Five men are scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges that they tricked hundreds of people into paying thousands of dollars in up-front fees for home loan modifications they never intended to perform. Jacob John Cunningham, 24, Dominic Adam Nolan, 30, John D. Silva, 27, all of Irvine, Justin Dennis Koelle, 23, of Costa Mesa and Andrew Michael Phalen, 25, of Mission Viejo face multiple felony charges related to the alleged three-year scam. Authorities claim they created fake home loan modification companies and sent out mailers soliciting fees to adjust customers' mortgages. The ads said they were 100% successful and would return the initial fee if the company did not complete the loan modification, according to prosecutors. It's illegal to collect fees ahead of performing home loan modifications in California. As the men collected from their victims, prosecutors said they would change their company's name, phone number and addresses. The plot developed in 2011, with the men allegedly representing themselves as CitiFinancial and CitiMortgage and offering home refinancing. Customers were asked to deposit money into the group's account at a low interest rate. The total loss is estimated at more than $65,000 nationwide. The men face sentences ranging from seven years and eight months to 21 years and eight months in prison. - Joseph Serna

GOVERNMENT shelling out reductions will contribute to a 22% begin repossessions next year, a grim review warned yesterday. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said 45,000 families may lose their homes in 2012, up from 37,000 this year. While, that would still be fewer than the 47,900 forced to hand back the keys in 2009, it is part of a broader malaise intimidating the housing market.Based from the Shaw Capital Management, The CML says that it should also expect ­mortgage lending to contract and the amount of home buyers slipping behind with loan repayments to go up. There are around 166,000 people as its approximations with delinquencies of more than 2.5% today, down from 196,000 in 2009.But it should expect this total to go up again to 180,000 next year as Government reductions lead to rising unemployment and wage goes up again fail to keep rate with living costs. Bob Pannell, CML chief economist, said: "With higher ­unemployment and the likelihood of real incomes controlling at best over the course of the year, we should expect to see greater financial stress."The CML predicts net lending, the total of new lending after repayments, will plunge to £5billion next year from £9billion this year and £41bn in 2008.According to the Shaw Capital Management,The amount of properties altering hands will also slide to 825,000 from 852,000 expected this year and 901,000 in 2008 as the credit crunch started. Richard Sexton, director of e.surv chartered surveyor, warned the eurozone crisis would make it more robust for banks to boost funds for lending. With buyer assurance low and credit conditions "congealing", he said mortgage rates would rise while lending to people with small deposits falls."The recent international economic uncertainty has dented the mortgage market with gives off that will leave it still groggy in the New Year," he said. Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "We have been warning that increasing numbers of homeowners are straini

GOVERNMENT shelling out reductions will contribute to a 22% begin repossessions next year, a grim review warned yesterday. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said 45,000 families may lose their homes in 2012, up from 37,000 this year. While, that would still be fewer than the 47,900 forced to hand back the keys in 2009, it is part of a broader malaise intimidating the housing market.Based from the Shaw Capital Management, The CML says that it should also expect ­mortgage lending to contract and the amount of home buyers slipping behind with loan repayments to go up. There are around 166,000 people as its approximations with delinquencies of more than 2.5% today, down from 196,000 in 2009.But it should expect this total to go up again to 180,000 next year as Government reductions lead to rising unemployment and wage goes up again fail to keep rate with living costs. Bob Pannell, CML chief economist, said: "With higher ­unemployment and the likelihood of real incomes controlling at best over the course of the year, we should expect to see greater financial stress."The CML predicts net lending, the total of new lending after repayments, will plunge to £5billion next year from £9billion this year and £41bn in 2008.According to the Shaw Capital Management,The amount of properties altering hands will also slide to 825,000 from 852,000 expected this year and 901,000 in 2008 as the credit crunch started. Richard Sexton, director of e.surv chartered surveyor, warned the eurozone crisis would make it more robust for banks to boost funds for lending. With buyer assurance low and credit conditions "congealing", he said mortgage rates would rise while lending to people with small deposits falls."The recent international economic uncertainty has dented the mortgage market with gives off that will leave it still groggy in the New Year," he said. Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "We have been warning that increasing numbers of homeowners are strai

GOVERNMENT shelling out reductions will contribute to a 22% begin repossessions next year, a grim review warned yesterday. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said 45,000 families may lose their homes in 2012, up from 37,000 this year. While, that would still be fewer than the 47,900 forced to hand back the keys in 2009, it is part of a broader malaise intimidating the housing market.Based from the Shaw Capital Management, The CML says that it should also expect ­mortgage lending to contract and the amount of home buyers slipping behind with loan repayments to go up. There are around 166,000 people as its approximations with delinquencies of more than 2.5% today, down from 196,000 in 2009.But it should expect this total to go up again to 180,000 next year as Government reductions lead to rising unemployment and wage goes up again fail to keep rate with living costs. Bob Pannell, CML chief economist, said: "With higher ­unemployment and the likelihood of real incomes controlling at best over the course of the year, we should expect to see greater financial stress."The CML predicts net lending, the total of new lending after repayments, will plunge to £5billion next year from £9billion this year and £41bn in 2008.According to the Shaw Capital Management,The amount of properties altering hands will also slide to 825,000 from 852,000 expected this year and 901,000 in 2008 as the credit crunch started. Richard Sexton, director of e.surv chartered surveyor, warned the eurozone crisis would make it more robust for banks to boost funds for lending. With buyer assurance low and credit conditions "congealing", he said mortgage rates would rise while lending to people with small deposits falls."The recent international economic uncertainty has dented the mortgage market with gives off that will leave it still groggy in the New Year," he said. Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "We have been warning that increasing numbers of homeowners are straini