D.C. court upholds $3.3 million penalty for foreclosure scam

Published June 7, 2010 4:00am ET



Two local businessmen will have to pay more than $3 million for defrauding a disabled woman out of her home in a so-called “foreclosure rescue scam,” the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled.

When Maria-Theresa Wilson was facing foreclosure in 2003 she was approached by former convict and preacher Calvin Baltimore, who said that he could help her keep her house, court records show.

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