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The Mortgage Fraud Reporter spoke with Assistant State Attorney Steven Siegel who confirmed that on Friday June 19, 2009 Katina Mickens (pictured below), a mortgage broker from Jacksonville, FL, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for obtaining approximately $60,000 at a real estate closing by filing 3 separate liens which claimed she had carried out home repairs. She had been convicted by a Duval County jury in May 2009.
In all she actually filed 6 such liens totaling approximately $118,000 and is due in court on other counts next month
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Assistant State Attorney Steven Siegel told the Florida Times-Union “It wasn’t just a financial crime. … This type of case is why we’re in the position we’re in. You ended up with an individual who basically defrauded a mortgage company into paying $16,000 more than it needed to.”

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The scheme operated by Mickens involved filing a document called a “claim of lien” at the Duval County Courthouse using a the name of a bogus company called J&J Properties. In the claim of lien Mickens reported she was owed money for work and materials used on the relevant property.
In a 2006 Times-Union To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily. about real estate scams, former owners of five of those properties said they never hired Mickens or J&J to do any repairs, and none were done.
A hearing is scheduled in July about other charges [counts 4 to 7 in the information] involving some of those homes, Assistant State Attorney Siegel told The Mortgage Fraud Reporter.


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