Woman Indicted In Mortgage Case
DENVER (AP) - A statewide grand jury has indicted a woman and her company on charges of defrauding more than a dozen individuals across the country out of thousands of dollars in fees for mortgages and loans she never delivered.
Attorney General John Suthers said Tuesday that 47-year-old Jill Evans and her company, Paramount Mortgage of Colorado Ltd., of defrauding victims out of about $500,000 by charging upfront fees in exchange for what victims believed were commercial and residential loans.
The transactions affected include properties in Crested Butte, Colo., Beverly Hills, Calif.; Calabasas, Calif.; Chicago and New Carrollton, Md.
Evans could not be reached for comment and it was not known if she had an attorney.
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