Beating down the blight: DeWine pledges state assistance (MarionStar.com)
State and local officials might have another solution to help with the problems of neighborhood blight, thanks to a multi-state ...
Foreclosure Deal May Help State Budgets (Bloomberg)
Wisconsin (STOWI1) plans to use part of its $140 million share of the national foreclosure settlement to fill a budget ...
Raze the Roof (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
Ohio is one of the focal points of this Bloomberg story that looks at how states plan to use their ...
Mortgage deal funds blight fight
February 13, 2012 [Cincinnati Enquirer] Last week's $25 billion nationwide mortgage foreclosure settlement could send millions of dollars to the ...
Lack of land bank may impact funding for Butler County
February 13, 2012 [Middletown Journal] Butler County is at a disadvantage to receive demolition money from the newly reached multi-state ...
Lorain hopes for part of $75 million demolition money (The Morning Journal)
LORAIN — Mayor Chase Ritenauer said he is hopeful Lorain can get a part of the $75 million Ohio will ...
Putting Ohio’s predatory lender settlement demolition is smart: editorial
February 10, 2012 [The Plain Dealer] The average home in Cleveland is on the market for 954 days before it ...
Ohio Attorney General looks to Land Bank as potential partner to help make use of $355 million to come to Ohio as a result of a 48 state settlement with 5 largest mortgage lenders
Cuyahoga Land Bank Board President and Cleveland Councilman Tony Brancatelli as well as Cuyahoga Land Bank Board Member and Cleveland ...
Beachwood man pleads guilty to mortgage fraud
February 4, 2012 [Faith Boone, Sun News] Two defendants, along with three companies, pled guilty to mortgage fraud crimes covering ...
5 Plead guilty to mortgage fraud
December 22, 2011 [Strongsville Patch] Five defendants pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud crimes that covered more than 500 real estate ...
Attorney General DeWine and the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission Announce Guilty Pleas in Nation’s Largest Mortgage Fraud Case
December 22, 2011 [The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -Attorney General Mike DeWine, the Attorney General's Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission ...
Guilty pleas in the larges case of mortgage fraud
December 21, 2011 [WTAM] (Cleveland)- County Prosecutor Bill Mason and the Cuyahoga County Mortgage Fraud Task Force announced five (5) ...
