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An Interview With A Felon Who Committed a $120 Million Mortgage Fraud


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Behavioral Ethics - Non-technical

Average Rating:
   24
Categories:
ACPEN Industry Institute |  Ethics
Faculty:
Gary Zeune, CPA |  Walt Pavlo |  Michael J. McGrath
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:

Dates


Description

Michael McGrath was the owner of a mortgage firm who purchased home mortgages from credit unions and packaged them into financial instruments sold to investors.  As the economy soured, he began manipulating the financials associated with those mortgages in hopes of salvaging his aggressive growth strategy.  Instead, the fraud kept getting bigger until banks were out over $120 Million.  He would plead guilty and be sentenced to 14 years in prison.

 

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Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

*Mortgage Fraud


Major Subjects

*Fraud


Course Materials

Faculty

Gary Zeune, CPA's Profile

Gary Zeune, CPA Related Seminars and Products

The Pros and the Cons


Gary Zeune has instructed Strategy Formulation and Implementation in the Executive MBA Program and Accounting and Honors Finance at The Ohio State University. He is also a member of the Education Executive Council and is past chairman of the Education Marketing and Public Relations Committees of The Ohio Society of CPAs. His other memberships include: the American Institute of CPAs, and the Regulation of Public Offerings Committee of the Ohio Division of Securities.

Prior to forming his consulting practice in 1986, Mr. Zeune was an Assistant Vice President of Corporate Finance at The Ohio Company, a Columbus, Ohio investment banking firm. He also spent more than five years in Treasury and Finance at Wendy's International, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, financial and SEC reporting, and corporate finance. He was on the audit staff of Ernst & Ernst from 1973 to 1977; and taught accounting at Ohio University from 1970 to 1973, where he received his bachelors in mathematics and masters in accounting, with honors.


Walt Pavlo's Profile

Walt Pavlo Related Seminars and Products


Walt Pavlo is the president of Prisonology, an educational software supporting law firms and their clients on information about the federal prison system.  He is a contributor to Forbes.com where he writes on white-collar crime and is the co-author of Stolen Without A Gun, which he co-wrote with Neil Weinberg (Reporter at Bloomberg). Mr. Pavlo is a nationally recognized speaker who has been a part of training programs at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, major corporations, professional societies and top ranked MBA programs across the country.

Mr. Pavlo earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University and his MBA in Finance from Mercer University.  He is also a Journalist Law School Fellow at Loyola Law School (2014).

 


Michael J. McGrath's Profile

Michael J. McGrath Related Seminars and Products


Michael J. McGrath is the former President and CEO of U.S. Mortgage Corporation and its subsidiaries CU National Mortgage, LLC and Icon Residential Lending, LLC who were engaged in retail, wholesale and credit union residential mortgage lending nationwide.  In June 2009, Mr. McGrath plead guilty to one count each of wire/mail fraud and money laundering in a $139 Million mortgage fraud scheme.  In 2011, McGrath was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.

In 2014, McGrath received a reduction of his sentence of 84 months for his cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Orleans, LA in the prosecution of the former Mayor of New Orleans C. Ray Nagin. Mr. McGrath was released in December 2015 after serving 57 months in federal prison, will serve 3 years of supervised release and has $125 million in restitution.

McGrath earned is B.S. in Finance from Seton Hall University. McGrath was named to the Fannie Mae Customer Advisory Board in 2007.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For

All

 


Original Recording Date 04/04/2016
Yellow Book No
Course Developer The Pros and the Cons
Date Added to Catalog 03/30/2016

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Course Registration Requirements

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Total Reviews: 24

Comments

Linda S - Clifton, New Jersey

"This was much better that I expected. Michael McGrath was extremely well prepared and genuine. "