Seizing the opportunity

Upper Marlboro Woman Charge

GREENBELT, Md. -- Federal prosecutors say a woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme.

Fifty-two-year-old Cheryl Brooke of Upper Marlboro also had a preliminary forfeiture judgment of more than $2 million entered against her on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say Brooke and others aired television advertisements that offered to help people improve their credit, and save their homes from foreclosure. However, the defendants took control of the homes and then failed to pay mortgages on them, causing the original owners to default.

This is becoming the norm where someone figures out a way to take advantage of the unsuspecting. Bernie Madoff Day showed America with a perfect scheme that any thing can be done with a diabolical plan. My heart goes out to the thousands of people who have been bamboozled out of their money and lost their home simply from a scam. Now that we have the culprit what do we really do with them? The fact is the money is gone, and its not coming back. Even though she will be sentenced, what is that really going to do? I mean it will ease the pain for a few minutes but what about the lifetime of damage that was created by the schemer.

The damage that these elite criminals have created is nothing short of a natural disaster, you never no it coming and after it does you wonder how are you going to regroup. No one should be left in the cold but realistically speaking after the damage is done, what do they really do?

Many of people are sitting with their hands in their pockets wondering how will I make it.