Minorities depend on subprime loans - 2005-03-18
Women, minorities and lower-income borrowers rely on subprime lenders, firms that specialize in higher-cost loans to people with blemished credit records, for a disproportionate share of mortgages and refinance loans.

Subprime loans were more common among blacks in 98.5% of the metropolitan areas, while Hispanics were more apt to hold a subprime mortgage or refinance mortgage loan in nearly 89.1%
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Three accused in mortgage fraud ring worth $3.3 million - 2005-03-18
Three Jamaican nationals were being held Thursday in the Orange County Jail on $1 million bail each for being connected with a mortgage-fraud ring stretching from Orlando to South Florida.

Patricia C. Grant, 48, Edgar Grant, 70, and Geisha Morris, 22 -- all with various addresses -- were jailed Thursday morning on charges they falsified documents to obtain mortgage loans for properties in Broward, Palm Beach and Orange counties.
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