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Feds charge 1,200 people mortgage fraud crackdown bi2561559 In a nationwide effort, officials file criminal charges against individuals allegedly responsible for $2.3 billion fraud. 'These schemes are despicable; they are dangerous to our economy,' Atty. Gen. Eric Holder says. Seeking to show victories against the kind of ground-level fraud that contributed to the housing crash, federal authorities said Thursday that they had filed criminal charges ..

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