Plaid has unveiled a new income verification offering, called Income, which aims to help people verify their income in order to qualify for mortgages and other big-ticket commitments. So reports TechCrunch.

A man who was previously convicted of mortgage fraud and was serving federal supervised release has received a 21-month prison sentence for his part in a separate auto loan scam, authorities said. So reports the Middletown (Conn.) Press.

Upstate New York developer Bob Morgan, who five months earlier beat a federal mortgage fraud case, has been charged once again with mortgage fraud. So reports the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle.