Smokers could save £40,000 on mortgage interest payments - 2005-03-02
A 20-a-day smoker could save over £40,000 on the interest payments of their mortgage, a new report has said.

Mortgage broker Charcol has calculated that if the money from purchasing cigarettes was put into overpayments on a home loan, not only would the mortgage be paid off more than eight years quicker, but the former smoker would pay £41,168 less in interest over the term of the loan.
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Man gets 20-month term for mortgage loan scam - 2005-03-02
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker on Monday sentenced a 39-year-old Indianapolis man to 20 months in prison for money laundering and intention to commit mail fraud.

Scott Thomas Earlywine pleaded guilty to both federal charges. He and his co-conspirators fraudulently got more than $700,000 through 21 mortgage loan transactions, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
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