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Company: Lender Processing Services Inc.
Penalty: $35,000,000
Year: 2013
Date: February 15, 2013
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: mortgage abuses
Secondary Offense: fraud
Mega-Scandal: Mortgage Abuses
Violation Description: Lender Processing Services Inc., a publicly traded mortgage servicing company based in Jacksonville, Fla., agreed to pay $35 million in criminal penalties and forfeiture to address its alleged participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million fraudulently signed and notarized mortgage-related documents with property recorders offices throughout the United States.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Criminal Division
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Prosecution Agreement: non-prosecution agreement
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