I BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF MICHAEL PALLOZZI. I ADMIT, I TOOK THE BUYERS ELSEWHERE AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN. I TOLD THE BUYERS HE WAS A SCAM ARTIST AND THAT LENDING IS NOT DONE THIS WAY. UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE BUYERS, THEY WERE UNABLE TO GET A LEGITIMATE LOAN. I HAVE NEVER BEEN ACCUSED OF DOING ANYTHING UNETHICAL AND TO BE ACCUSED BY MICHAEL PALLOZZI, THE CRIMINAL, IS A JOKE. LEGAL RECOURSE IS HAPPENING. MICHAEL PALLOZZI IS GOING TO JAIL. HOPEFULLY, ONCE AND FOR ALL HE WILL BE STOPPED. READ THE BELOW ARTICLE. YOU WILL SEE A HISTORY OF PALLOZZI'S BLATENT DISREGARD OF THE MORTGAGE INDUSTRY. IT'S A SHAME HE CAN USE THIS SITE IN THIS WAY, BUT I THINK THIS ARTICLE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
A Saratoga County mortgage broker who went to prison for selling drugs at his prior mortgage company pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges this week related to the refinancing of a Latham residence. Michael J Pallozzi, 33, a mortgage broker for the Waterford branch of Advantage Mortgage, faces several years in prison following his plea last Monday to a single felony count of wire fraud The guilty plea stems from Pallozzi's falsification of loan documents related to the refinancing application for a residence at 191 Maxwell Road, according to federal court recordsThe guilty plea is Pallozzi's second felony conviction In 2003 he pleaded guilty to felony drug charges stemming from allegations he and four others sold cocaine and marijuana from their offices at First Guarantee Mortgage on Broadway, Saratoga Springs Pallozzi was sentenced to 3 to 9 years in state prison but served a reduced sentence after enrolling in a shock incarceration program, an alternative to prison based on an intense boot camp experience followed by more supervised paroleOn Thursday, US Probation officers, who will prepare a pre-sentence investigation of Pallozzi, requested details of his drug conviction in Saratoga County Court Pallozzi's federal sentencing is scheduled to take place Aug 10 at US District Court in AlbanyPallozzi pleaded guilty before US District Senior Judge Thomas J McAvoy and released to the supervision of federal probation officersHis attorney, George E LaMarche III of Troy, said "nobody suffered any loss" in connection with the federal fraud charges"There's no loss here," LaMarche said "You don't want to say that it's a minor case, but relatively speaking it is when you compare it to other major federal prosecutions that have occurred locally"According to a plea agreement Pallozzi falsely inflated the income of the owners of the Maxwell Road property and concealed their indebtedness for a $124,000 secondary mortgage on the home, which they purchased for $375,000 in February 2006 The falsified documents were filed in connection with the property owners' application to refinance their mortgage The owners were directed to Pallozzi's company through an on-line service, according to court records"The defendant on numerous occasions submitted or caused to be submitted false information to financing institutions for the purpose of inducing them to fund loans," the plea agreement states "Pallozzi realized that the new owners' income would not be sufficient to qualify them for the desired refinance loan (so) he caused to be created a 'pension award letter' that purported to be proof of pension income from Verizon to make it appear that one of the new owners earned more than he/she, in truth and fact, earned"Pallozzi transmitted the falsified documents to a North Carolina lending company, Equifirst Corporation, in March 2008Court records do not indicate any connection between Pallozzi's crime and an ongoing FBI investigation of his former company, First Guarantee Mortgage in Saratoga Springs