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When It Comes to Bogus Mortgages, Atlanta Leads the Nation

By John Sugg

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | December 2, 2004

For more than a year, Georgia has raced past Florida, the usual state of first resort for real estate scumbags, in mortgage fraud. Our fraud rates are more than two-and-a-half times what they should be for our population.

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