Title company to pay $5M
Story date: 2007-11-16 09:02:00
Added on: 2007-11-16 22:00:18
St. Petersburg Times - Regulators say that First American Title Insurance Co. illegally paid real estate agents, mortgage brokers, banks and home builders for referrals by making them partners in sham title companies. Eighty-four of these companies were created to funnel ...
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