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David Saks is a musician, retired real estate broker, and long-time ActiveRain member. David's blog features important information relevant to the safety, integrity and security of the industry. In addition to his widely read real estate fraud blog, a comprehensive overview of real estate continuing education is a weekly addition for his subscribers and the ActiveRain community at-large. Thank you for subscribing to and for visiting David's ActiveRain home on the internet. Please join. Membership in ActiveRain will enrich your life !

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2015 

Phone Scams Continue to be Serious Threat, Remain on IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for the 2015 Filing Season IRS YouTube Video:Tax Scams: English | Spanish | ASL Podcasts:  English | Spanish WASHINGTON — Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain ne...
01/22/2015
While you're angrily focusing on  beating the agent ahead of you in  the points queue with your next point rally while you continue to play   ActiveRain the Game     enjoy this crappy television game show music that I wrote 25 years ago to inspire your victory.       Who Knows ?   You might win a...
01/22/2015
Long Island Legislator Pleads Guilty to Stealing More Than $2 Million from Client of His Former Law Firm U.S. Attorney’s Office January 21, 2015 Eastern District of New York (718) 254-7000 David Denenberg, a practicing New York attorney and Nassau County Legislator, pleaded guilty today to defra...
01/22/2015
Galena Woman Sentenced for Stealing $300,000 from Employer U.S. Attorney’s Office January 21, 2015 Western District of Missouri (816) 426-3122 SPRINGFIELD, MO—Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Galena, Mo., woman has been sentence...
01/22/2015
Former Texas Title Company Employee Heads to Prison in Bank Fraud Conspiracy U.S. Attorney’s Office January 21, 2015 Southern District of Texas (713) 567-9000 HOUSTON—Harris County resident Maria Eliza Garza has been ordered to prison following her conviction in conspiring to defraud seven diffe...
01/22/2015
      If You Can't Sell Any Houses You Can't Make Any Money !   Duh !
01/21/2015
Former Plymouth Finance Director Arrested, Charged with Embezzling More Than $800k U.S. Attorney’s Office January 20, 2015 District of Connecticut (203) 821-3700 Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID J. BERTNAGEL, 41, of Thomaston, was arre...
01/21/2015
Couple Pleads Guilty in Mortgage Fraud Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office January 16, 2015 Western District of New York (716) 843-5700 BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Timothy McCabe, 50, and Theresa Morales, 50, of Florida (formerly of Buffalo), pleaded guilty be...
01/21/2015
Former Dunkirk Mayor Charged with Wire Fraud for Using Campaign Contributions for His Own Personal Benefit U.S. Attorney’s Office January 20, 2015 Western District of New York (716) 843-5700 BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a...
01/21/2015
Broward Real Estate Broker Sentenced in Three Fraud Cases Totaling More Than $5 Million U.S. Attorney’s Office January 20, 2015 Southern District of Florida (313) 226-9100 A Broward real estate broker was sentenced today to 41 months in prison, three years’ supervised release and ordered to pay ...
01/21/2015
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