Federal prosecutors Joseph Traxler, formerly the chief financial officer and senior vice president of Centennial Mortgage and Funding, defrauded American Bank of St. Paul of about $8 million.
Total hospital capacity remains public, but how many COVID-19 patients are hospitalized is not.
Adam Weeks of the Legal Marijuana Now Party has died.
The man, from Coon Rapids, was killed Wednesday morning.
The vice-president is attending a Cops for Trump event near MSP Airport Thursday afternoon.
Four restaurants, including Red Cow, will operate out of Red Cow's kitchen.
The fall is the busiest time of year for OHV riders.
Sam Ekstrom runs through an in-depth film study of the polarizing linebacker.
Seth Stohs looks at the realistic possibilities of the 28-man team.
State leaders don't want infected students, both high school and college, spreading COVID-19 to more vulnerable people.
It's still planning 'extensive' hiring for the holidays.
Three more deaths are included, but the main focus of the report is a new method for reporting hospitalizations.
They hope unionizing will lead to fair compensation, diversity of staff and more transparency.
The Minneapolis-based financial institutes vice chairman of payment services Pamela Joseph and executive vice president Leslie Godridge both ranked in this year's list compiled by American Banker magazine.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is eyeing a $374 billion mortgage-servicing portfolio of Residential Capital LLC. The bankrupt lending unit, a subsidiary of government-owned Ally Financial, filed for Chapter 11 protection in May. Dow Jones News Wires reports Minnesota-based ResCap already has a proposed agreement to sell the mortgage unit to NationStar Mortgage Holdings Inc. Berkshire says it will match the $2.4 billion bid, but offer a lower breakup fee.
The new case involving a Utah company joins a list of other mortgage fraud prosecutions Minnesota has pending. Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman says the companies are exploiting homeowners in financial distress by promising services that they don't deliver.
A woman from Savage was sentenced to 60 months in prison Friday for her role in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme that victimized lenders across the country. Barbara Lynnae Puro, 49, was sentenced after pleading guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
A Chanhassen man has become the third person to plead guilty in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 57 properties. Douglas Rex Butler faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of fraud.
Joseph Meyer, 47, has pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in connection with a mortgage scheme involving the Cloud 9 Sky Flats condo development in Minnetonka. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Nine people have been charged in the fraud scheme. A Minneapolis man is the only person who has not entered a plea.
5.4 percent of Minnesota mortgage holders were behind by at least one payment during the third quarter. That's almost a full percentage point lower than during the same period last year. It's also one of the lowest delinquency rates among the states.
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