Legal Opinion
United States v. Lorie Westerfield
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 9, 2013No. 12-1599PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Lorie Westerfield was a lawyer working for a title insurance company in Illinois when she facilitated fraudulent real estate transfers in a mortgage fraud scheme. The scheme used stolen identities of homeowners to “sell” houses that were not for sale to fake buyers, and then collect the mortgage proceeds from lenders who were unaware of the fraud. Westerfield facilitated five such real estate transfers, and was later indicted on four counts of wire fraud. She claimed that she had been unaware of the scheme’s fraudulent nature and argued that she had merely performed the…
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