Mortgage Broker Gets 3 Years For Illegally Pocketing $16K By Filing Phony Mechanics Lien Shortly Before Title Closing

In Jacksonville, Florida, The Florida Times Union reports:A Jacksonville mortgage broker faces three years in prison for pocketing thousands of dollars at a real estate closing by pretending she did home repairs. Katina Mickens, 30, was sentenced [...] for grand theft, filing a false construction lien claim and acting as an unlicensed real estate agent at a 2005 home sale where she arranged the