June 21, 2011
Former Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. CEO Paul R. Allen was sentenced Tuesday in Virginia to more than three years in prison for allegedly helping to orchestrate a $3 billion bank and securities fraud at the mortgage company.
June 14, 2011
The former chairman of defunct lender Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., convicted of orchestrating a $2.9 billion bank and securities fraud, chastised prosecutors in Virginia on Monday for trying to force him to forfeit $30.7 million in allegedly ill-gotten gains.
May 25, 2011
Federal prosecutors in Virginia on Tuesday sought to recoup $30.7 million in assets from the former chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., who was convicted in April of conducting a $2.9 billion bank and securities fraud that ruined the mortgage lender.
April 28, 2011
A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid by the former chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. to leave jail as he awaits sentencing for operating a $2.9 billion bank and securities fraud that destroyed the mortgage lender.
April 25, 2011
Attorneys for Lee Bentley Farkas, the former chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. convicted last week of operating a $2.9 billion bank fraud, asked a Virginia federal court Friday to release him while he awaited sentencing.
April 19, 2011
A Virginia federal jury on Tuesday convicted the former chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. for his role in a $2.9 billion bank fraud that allegedly led to the mortgage giant's collapse and attempting to defraud the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
April 06, 2011
The former chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. won access to emails between Colonial Bank and its Akerman Senterfitt LLP attorneys on Tuesday, two days into his Virginia trial on charges he masterminded a $2 billion fraud.
March 11, 2011
A former Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. executive charged in Virginia federal court with orchestrating a $2 billion fraud secured a subpoena Tuesday seeking documents from Ernst & Young LLP following threats to hold the accounting firm in contempt.
March 03, 2011
A former Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. executive charged in Virginia federal court with orchestrating a $2 billion fraud withdrew a subpoena Tuesday seeking documents from Deutsche Bank Securities, though he is still pursuing records from Troutman Sanders LLP.
February 09, 2011
Troutman Sanders LLP has sought to kill a subpoena sought by the ex-chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. for records he claims would help him defend a $2 billion criminal fraud case, contending they are privileged.