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Atlanta woman sentenced for mortgage fraud

By Christopher Quinn
Nov 4, 2011

A federal judge sentenced Gia Joy Glasse-Harris of Atlanta Thursday to three years and a month in prison for conspiring to commit mortgage fraud.

Glasse-Harris, 27, pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain a reverse mortgage using forged deeds and letters in 2009 and 2010. Reverse mortgages allow seniors to take out a loan against their property and use the money for living or other expenses. Glasse-Harris tried to transfer property into the name of a senior while fraudulently inflating the value of the property she tried to take a loan against up to five times, according to the U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.

Glasse-Harris was ordered to pay $174,000 in restitution.

--Christopher Quinn

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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.

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