* 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 mortgage.
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* The day before the house went to closing, Mickens filed a document called a claim of lien. Under a fictitious name, J&J Properties, Mickens reported she had done work on the house and was owed $16,000. That represented about 18 percent of the $85,000 mortgage on the home, putting an unnecessary added burden on the buyer, [Assistant State Attorney Stephen] Siegel said.(1)
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