Law enforcement officials are finding that their mortgage fraud investigations are often overlapping and sometimes compromising their efforts. One Attorney General is seeking to get everyone on the same page.
Florida's Attorney General was filing suit against a lender when he learned that another state agency was also performing their own investigation. The Florida Office of Financial Regulation's actions actually impeded the AGs progress.
AG Bill McCollum is calling on the leaders of several statewide agencies to work together by forming a mortgage fraud task force.